RE: Fast Track Evolution
June 23, 2011 at 2:37 pm
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2011 at 2:40 pm by Anomalocaris.)
Actually, the figure is more likely to be >99.5% for complex animals. Your average higher animal species seem to live about 2-5 million years or so, and complex animals have been on earth for at least 600-700 million years, if you include the likes of Jelly fish.
Evolution is actually easy to induce, observe and even artificially direct in the laboratory, provided you work with species with short life span and fast reproduction cycle. Bacteria with life span of 20 minutes can easily to induced to evolve before your eyes.
As to success rate of prayer, prayer can only claim any success rate at all if it gets you what you want more often can be expected from pure random chance. I suspect if one were to deduct the contribution of random chance, the success rate of prayer would be zero.
Evolution is actually easy to induce, observe and even artificially direct in the laboratory, provided you work with species with short life span and fast reproduction cycle. Bacteria with life span of 20 minutes can easily to induced to evolve before your eyes.
As to success rate of prayer, prayer can only claim any success rate at all if it gets you what you want more often can be expected from pure random chance. I suspect if one were to deduct the contribution of random chance, the success rate of prayer would be zero.
