(October 3, 2016 at 6:49 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Life isn't evolving towards more complex organisms. It's not evolving towards anything in specific at all. Life -has- evolved into more complex organisms, in specific instances, but complex life has -also- been selected against at least once or twice globally, and constantly on a regional and local scale. Every single time you read about a species going extinct, it was their very complexity, their specificity of environment and necessity of particular conditions....that cause that end.
You started with the spikes not being in the tree...and this is where the raft drifts. Maybe you ought to consider the prospect that you got something wrong much earlier in the process? Whatever method you're applying to your observations (whatever they may be) are leading, in your own estimation, to counter-factual conclusions. That's a giant flashing neon red warning sign.
Yes, DNA development truncated by rare catastrophic external events. And if it was not interrupted in it's internal process?
What counter factual conclusion are you referring to specifically?
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Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
