Old Aug 17, 2009 | 01:17 PM
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Default Re: Unanswered prayers, or unintended blessings?

Originally Posted by Franc Rauscher
I find agreement with what you say here. To kurt's point about the "evolution" of a surviving stronger virus or bacterium, I would suggest this logic. In the event of a LEE or Near LEE, there will of course, be some surviving species. Coackraoches will survive, rats and possibly some humans.

Will we continue to call them Cockraoches, Rats and Humans or will they be a "new " species. Stronger for passing the intense test to their survival, and clearly a little diffent from the norm, but are they a new species?

I would suggest the survivors may very well be from and extreme end of the bell curve but, they aren't new. Just stronger, better able to survive.

One would think, that the creator would have such planning engineered into the system. Otherwise it would eventualy fail. The crucibels that burn off the weak are ignited often. Perhaps this is why. Again, an intelligent design.

The average engineering involves creation of something with the intent that it is duplicated exactly as long as it is marketable. Ergo; as long as it functions, it survives. Instead we have a system that constantly challenges itself. This automatic purging produces stronger, better, sometimes different outcomes. Pure genius.

Would you have thought of it?

Hmmmm?


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Franc,

Thanks for your comments and I am not sure if I read your reply right but I am not asserting a survival of the fittest mindset that Darwin promoted. Survival of the fittest is inherently flawed because our ecosystem is not simply made up of dominance, in life there is a coexistence of weak and strong which is also highly interpretive. Just like the bacteria, that so seemingly insignificant can wipe us out in a plague in a heartbeat, or something so insignificant as water or air can tame the strongest and wisest human if they are not available.

The design of this world as we see it (or at least think we know it) it utterly amazing and I am glad that at least we can dialogue on this and find points where we agree. This at a minimum allows our dialogue to continue and progress while at the same time not breaking down into a mess of insults and personal attacks.

Respectfully

Nate
 
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