Are we evolving?

[Edx]

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[Wiccan_Child]

this thread was buried, mon

I have a witness to testify that he in no wayz iz related to me...and he's credible...go ahead...ask him if he's related to brinny

Still chewin' on it, huh?

 

[brinny]

Still chewin' on it, huh?

uh-uh

been a bit distracted....can't fathom gonads or gnomes or goonies or such..

my computer's been dying...i think it has virus...can't get a new one yet.....CF was down fer a while...i've been chasing drug dealers and freakin' out panhandlers and just went to my dentist and i need a break....



i hang out mostly on the fun threads now

 

[Gracchus]

been a bit distracted....can't fathom gonads or gnomes or goonies or such..

It is a good thing to discover your intellectual limitations.

my computer's been dying...i think it has virus...can't get a new one yet.....

If it is a software problem, buying a new computer is overkill. If it is a hardware problem, it might be repairable.

CF was down fer a while...

Such things happen. If it was down for you, it was down for everyone.

i've been chasing drug dealers ...

Judging from the content of your posts, you have already caught up with way too many of them.

... and freakin' out panhandlers ...

Like so?

Matthew 5:42 "Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away."

... and just went to my dentist and i need a break....

Aww ...

i hang out mostly on the fun threads now

I think we understand. It can't be much fun to have your hiney handed to you when you dispute with the big folks.

Come on back when your teeth don't hurt.

 

[mpok1519]

Hi Everyone

I'm not sure that I have the answer to this question, so I thought I'd throw it out to you all to chin-wag it into some kind of definitely agreed consensus.

Evolution is an all encompassing phenomina of the universe. Absolutely everything within it, is seen to evolve. Agreed?

Secondly, is it possible to remove something from the evolutionary effect, by placing it outside of evolution?

Thirdly, have we in fact, done that to ourselves?

And fourthly, by way of example, by keeping animals in zoos, etc, are we in fact preventing them from evolving?

I base all these thoughts on the fact that anything within evolution is connected to everything in evolution. Knock-on effects so to speak.

Ultimately, is humanity's intelligence and it's development therefore, the ultimate reason why eventually other life forms will evolve into something that our technology will just not be able to defeat, thereby creating the scenario that humanity will eventually render itself extinct by nature of it's inability to evolve?

So: Are we dooming ourselves to extinction by seperating ourselves from evolution, or will we manipulate evolution for our own gain, because we cannot evolve?

Have we already doomed ourselves to extinction?

ps - I hope you enjoy this one. I don't intend for it to be anti or pro anything. Just a neutral discussion of the possibilities of being outside of evolution.
Enjoy.

I'd say yes we are evolving.

And if you keep a tiger or many tigers in a zoo for that matter, it won't keep their wild population from evolving.

 

[Gracchus]

Evolution walks on two legs: Variation and selection. With a total human population of over six billion persons, there is a great deal of variation. The next big (and inevitable) extinction event will remove a great deal (if not all!) of that variation by ruthless selection.

So: Yes, we are still evolving.

 

[brinny]

It is a good thing to discover your intellectual limitations.

If it is a software problem, buying a new computer is overkill. If it is a hardware problem, it might be repairable.

Such things happen. If it was down for you, it was down for everyone.

Judging from the content of your posts, you have already caught up with way too many of them.

Like so?

Matthew 5:42 "Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away."

Aww ...

I think we understand. It can't be much fun to have your hiney handed to you when you dispute with the big folks.

Come on back when your teeth don't hurt.

hehehe i guess you told me, didn't ya'?

i've only just begun with the drug dealers...my city is over run with them...older people scared to come out of their homes....a city shrouded in fear.....a city void of a heart and soul...a city i love...i don't like bullies, never did. i'm just starting.

The panhandler? hee hee yer cute. i speak to them, ask them why they're asking for money. I give money, sometimes in $20.00 increments to other 'panhandlers', like the older guy in the wheelchair who sits outside the dept of housing...or an older female who was lying on the concrete one cold morning, probably drunk. and as i had this male passerby help me get her up, i found out her name, etc. Care to hear more?

But back to this particular panhandler...yes, aah, he was a bit different. He got freaked out after i had a conversation with him and he actually insisted i take the money back.

Yer a gem. It's been delightful responding to yer post

Peace,
Brenda

 

[brinny]

If it is a software problem, buying a new computer is overkill. If it is a hardware problem, it might be repairable.

How do you find out what is causing the problem?

 

[DoubtingThomas29]

I tend to believe that terroists will attack us with a genetically engineered virus, and only like one million humans will not die from it, because of their sophisticated immune system. Other humans may be saved, but when they reproduce, they won't give humans for offspring, they'll yield a new species with an immune system capable of fighting off the virus.

Probably will happen in the next thirty or forty years if not sooner.

 

[Gracchus]

How do you find out what is causing the problem?

If you clear some of your message space, I will PM you. We should not derail the thread.

 

[mpok1519]

we evovle

 

[mpok1519]

into apes

 

[Danyc]

into apes

Um

We are apes

 

[brinny]

into apes

does that mean i'll be visiting you at the zoo?

 

[AintNoMonkey]

You must be jesus, because you have just resurrected the dead.

 

[mpok1519]

We are a zoo.

ever watch TV?

ever observe people in their little cages?

heh. We do live in a menagerie of an ominous web of confusion.

=)

Explain to me why we share 99% of our DNA with chimps? oh wait....they cant. lol Forget I ever asked the question...no, no, no! I said to forget it. We'll just get into a deep conversation only one of us will make sense of.

 

[Vene]

We are a zoo.

ever watch TV?

ever observe people in their little cages?

heh. We do live in a menagerie of an ominous web of confusion.

=)

Explain to me why we share 99% of our DNA with chimps? oh wait....they cant. lol Forget I ever asked the question...no, no, no! I said to forget it. We'll just get into a deep conversation only one of us will make sense of.

I thought it was 98%. Nope, I was apparently wrong, according to http://www.cs.ucr.edu/~eamonn/DNA/ it's 96%. Still a very high number.

 

[brinny]

hehe yes, this thread has been resurrected

 

[mpok1519]

I'm pretty sure its closer to 99%

 

[Vene]

I'm pretty sure its closer to 99%

Do you have a source? I know I didn't look very hard to find a figure, but I did look.