Yanniru,
You've said some wonderfully engaging and humanitarian, artful things about evolution
and also the whole list has me cringing
and my skin crawling with dread and anxious mourning with those ideas which though insightful will contribute to failing to create our mutual survival
I am sensitive to broadbrush ideas which will hastily lead to ruin by neglect of
ideas and communities .
People aren't only right or wrong... like molecules of chemistry, they are under assembly ...and each step of chemical assembly determines what kind of phenomena happens.
Take a chemical. Add another and it fizzes, or is drinkable, poisonous and/or inert...
Add another and it fizzes, becomes drinkable, poisonous and/or inert...

If you teach evolution one way,
you might turn an innocent into a dangerous consumer.
If you teach evolution other ways,
you might turn either an innocent or a dangerous consumer into either a skewed "survival of the fittest" warrior
OR an enlightened design-team-member for a wonderful future.

Since I posted extensively on evolution and received very little response, I now read evidence that most of
the thoughts I posted have not been read or comprehended ...
yet, I am quite secure in the high percentage of those warnings, cautions and prescriptions being deeply borne out by a high understanding of present future events as they unfold...

We can fail to heed the true math
(mental, spersonal, social and material)
of our situations and then those who survive might be the worst ignorers of all...they might destroy those who WOULD HAVE SUCCESSFULLY contributed designs enhancing sustainability, beauty and love-acquirement on the widest possible scales.
Good ideas are not enough. We need to use our time as well as possible and choose our comments excellently. I'll try if you will...if you'll try even if I won't !
Or sompin'
Mike

• Peace is the end of evolution - yanniru - May 16, 2002 - 13:18 UTC
  • Not so. You don't seem to have any intention of talking biology - occupant - May 17, 2002 - 04:22 UTC
    • pardon me? - finlearson - July 26, 2002 - 22:51 UTC
      • evolution - fasteddy - July 27, 2002 - 17:33 UTC
      • However, peace is usually not defined as "absence of catalysts" - quiet - September 18, 2002 - 03:28 UTC