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To: TigerPaw who wrote (62608)	11/13/2014 12:05:42 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 69300

Spontaneous Order of Friedrich Hayek, aka Self-organization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous_order " US President Ronald Reagan listed Hayek as among the two or three people who most influenced his philosophy and welcomed Hayek to the White House as a special guest. [54] In the 1970s and 1980s, the writings of Hayek were also a major influence on many of the leaders of the "velvet" revolution in Central Europe during the collapse of the old Soviet Empire. Here are some supporting examples " Spontaneous order Main article: Spontaneous order Hayek viewed the free price system not as a conscious invention (that which is intentionally designed by man), but as spontaneous order or what he referred to as "that which is the result of human action but not of human design". Thus, Hayek put the price mechanism on the same level as, for example, language. Hayek attributed the birth of civilisation to private property in his book The Fatal Conceit (1988). He explained that price signals are the only means of enabling each economic decision maker to communicate tacit knowledge or dispersed knowledge to each other, to solve the economic calculation problem. Friedrich Hayek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Friedrich Hayek CH (German: ['f?i?d??ç 'a??g?st 'ha???k]; 8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992), born in Austria-Hungary as Friedrich August von Hayek and frequently referred to as F. A. Hayek, was an Austrian, later British,[1] economist[2] and philosopher best known for his defence of classical liberalism.… en.wikipedia.org meme

To: TigerPaw who wrote (62608)	11/13/2014 8:28:11 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

Micro-evolution is common and a LOT faster than Darwin thought possible. The only conclusion I can reach is living things are designed to micro-evolve in response to changed environments. Remember Darwin's Galapogos finches? In 1967, 100 identical finches were removed from a US Government Bird Reservation in the middle of the Pacific and taken about 300 miles away to a group of four small atolls. 17 years later they were found to have a variety of bill shapes and to have adapted in both behavior and bill shape and associated muscles to a variety of niches. Darwin thought it took 2 million years for the Galapogos finches to diverge but now we know it takes about 17 years. No way that could happen so fast based on natural selection working on via random mutations. Life must be designed to micro-evolve.