(August 6, 2009 at 1:19 pm)Anto Kennedy Wrote:Quote:Natural selection is the process by which heritable traits that make it more likely for an organism to survive and successfully reproduce become more common in a population over successive generations. It is a key mechanism of evolution.
That's only a wikipedia definition which refers to biological evolution and the natural selection of species, individuals and genes for extinction.
I agree it's only Wikipedia but in this case they got it right.
Natural selection doesn't really apply to cosmology because there is no real competition for resource, no struggle to survive within changing environmental conditions ...if Dawkins or anyone else said that they were waxing poetic. An NS like process may apply to cosmology in some sense I agree.
Why should I be interested in discussing memes with an idiot bigot? What has that got to do with your stupid claim that the bible already had natural selection in it? Actually natural selection was accepted by many scientists and academics almost as soon as it was proposed ... yes there was opposition but there is always opposition so your point is pretty much irrelevant.
(August 6, 2009 at 1:19 pm)Anto Kennedy Wrote: Let's try the Word of God
Ignoring the rest of your argument (I'm only interested in opposing your claim that NS is in scripture) the quote you make is NOT recognition of natural selection, it is simple recognition that good soil produces good crop, bad soil the reverse ... just basic farming stuff.
(August 6, 2009 at 1:19 pm)Anto Kennedy Wrote: [Homo Sapiens are very unlikely. If complex organisms were to evolve on another planet, they would most likely be cold blooded reptiles like the dinosaurs, who are superior than mammals in perhaps every way in terms of survivability. The mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs was a BIG fluke. Of course, the alien dinosaurs may be wiped out in a similar fashion, but this is highly unlikely, there may be just several planets were this does occur in the entire universe, or none at all.
Justify your claim that Homo sapiens is unlikely please!
Justify your assertion that the mass extinction of dinosaurs was a fluke, indeed justify that it actually happened (I understand there is significant opposition in the scientific community to the idea that a meteor falling 60MYA wiped out the dinosaurs).
(August 6, 2009 at 1:19 pm)Anto Kennedy Wrote: Now mammals are warm blooded, and as such suffer a severe disability; they harbour viruses. Cold blooded animals like the dinosaurs don't suffer this same disability, and without a mass extinction event, weak mammals cannot grow to dominate an ecosystem. And, my guess is, only mammals exhibit the kind of consciousness that could grow into a sapient consciousness capable of space travel.
Justify your claim that the dinosaurs were cold blooded (here's a clue, they weren't).
(August 6, 2009 at 1:19 pm)Anto Kennedy Wrote: But sure, I'm just a bigot. BTW, why was Fr0do banned? If you don't mind me asking.
You are a bigot and I do!
Kyu
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