(February 14, 2016 at 6:22 pm)Constable Dorfl Wrote:(February 14, 2016 at 3:35 pm)Tiberius Wrote: None of the planets have "constant" distances from the Sun though. All the planets have elliptical orbits, so their distance from the Sun fluctuates over the course of the year.
What makes that odd is that the Catholic Church accepts evolution as fact, so he's going against his own church.
Considering what the Nazi pope was saying before he retired to wear his SS uniform, and some of the utterance of Wotyjla and Bergoglio, I'd doubt the sincerity of their acceptance of evolution.
(February 14, 2016 at 3:53 pm)MTL Wrote: Cockroaches have found a successful survival model
which significantly surpasses the tenure of human life on Earth, yes.
However, they've never risked adaptation beyond that successful survival model
...hence, they are still just cockroaches.
Better to attempt to evolve continually, and risk annihilation,
than to remain a cockroach for eternity, just to be on the safe side.
I mean, what's the point of surviving forever,
if you're just going to be a cockroach for eternity???
Survival at the cost of Evolution is worthless, IMO.
Actually, cockroaches haven't given up evolving, if we could get DNA from 60+m years ago we'd probably see that the modern cockroach is vastly different at the genetic level than his ancestors. That's a common misconception people often have about creatures that look like their distant ancestors, that they've stopped evolving (many people think we've stopped evolving too, for different reasons. We're god's greatest creation natch, so why bother attempting to improve the unimprovable), when in order to survive this long the creatures have to be able to adapt both significantly and frequently.
They haven't evolved beyond being gross, yet.
