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Are we evolving? I'm not sure.
If spoons, forks, and dishes were replicators, that may very well be the case. And since organisms are replicators...^ That looks stupid. It's about like saying a spoon turned into a fork and the fork turned into a dish.
I've seen him elsewhere alluding to a being a non-common-descent-ist. Oh the humanityI say this guy is pulling our leg.
^ That looks stupid. It's about like saying a spoon turned into a fork and the fork turned into a dish.
Why? If the OP had asked "is every integer expressible as the sum of two primes?" would you say "I'm not sure. Let me check the Bible."?Are we evolving? I'm not sure. Let me check the Bible.
Uh, ok, so you're saying that the Bible might be compatible with the ToE? Fair enough, but then why the old creationist shtick about spoons and forks?At the beginning of the Bible, it says "let the waters team with living creatures, and let the birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." According to evolution; life first came from the water (correct me if I'm wrong). God, being timeless, could have known birds would evolve out of the water.
And, since we're here... as has been pointed out, spoons et al are not biological replicators. But, even so, working with your analogy, it would be more accurate to say that a stick was turned into a fork in one instance and into a spoon in another; the first "fork" was a pointy stick and the first "spoon" was a flattened stick; the distinctive fork and spoon natures that we know today came out of this initial divergence. Actually, that would also explain why cutlery all employs the same basic pattern of stickness: common descent. Hmm, not such a bad analogy after all!^ That looks stupid. It's about like saying a spoon turned into a fork and the fork turned into a dish.
Do you have a source? I know I didn't look very hard to find a figure, but I did look.
I think we're devolving physically, but technologically we're evolving.
you're right, there is no such thing as 'devolving', for devolution is the same thing as evolution; to say devolve is the same as saying evolve, only with different paths and trajectories.
by devolve, i mean evolve backwards, in a way.
But you are right; most scientists don't acknowledge the idea of devolution, for whichever path a species progresses(where we consider that path to be going forwards, backwards, left or right), its always the 'correct' path, and thus, is evolution.
and and the progression of technology itself isn't a good reflection of our evolutionary status, but, our technology is progressing along a metaphorical evolutionary chain.
ever read "Shadowrun" novels? theres alot of good eerily prophetic overtones; magic resurfaces, technology does 'magic' things, and humans begin to exhibit genetic variation to the point some people become dwarves, elves, trolls and orcs. Its like the future "Lord of the Rings". "Snowcrash" is also a good book that follows the lines of pot-apocalyptic America where government doesn't work, but rather corporations control the majority of sovereign nations, and infact become extraterritorial-soveriegn nations themselves..
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