(February 4, 2014 at 8:58 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote:Quote:
Yes, given enough time and resources.
Prove it. :p I can live for a year, can I therefore live for a million?
The fallacy here, of course, is the false equivocation between what an individual is capable of compared to successive generations. Evolution works on the generational level.
But to engage your original analogy of walking a billion miles, that's the whole principle between generation starships; that the vessel is launched and the descendants of the original crew and passengers eventually disembark at their destination.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
