From: John Beckett 

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news::
> Of course that's why there are so many complicated life forms on all the
> other planets we have observed so far.  Its easy for all these things and
> the right conditions to exist.  Almost impossible to stop it from happening.
>
> Regarding the obviousness of evolution that certainly explains all the
> observations of all the transitional species in the fossil records.  That
> explains all the transitional species that have developed out of sharks and
> alligators.  That explains why new more intelligent ape species keep
> appearing on the planet.  I can't wait to see the next zoo exhibit where the
> newest of transitional smarter ape species goes on display.  I understand
> that the lack of any evolution in modern man is caused by the fact that we
> are so smart and well developed societally, but that doesn't apply to apes
> and other mammals so those easy to have transitional species of new more
> intelligent ready to compete for territory with modern man apes should be
> all around us.  Maybe its bigfoot that's the latest transitional more
> intelligent ape species.

Presumably your stream of babble impresses people where you live. Have you
noticed that it's not so effective with people who have done some reading?

For anyone other than Gary who is reading this, the first defect in the
quote above is failure to understand what I have stated a few times:  We do
not know how life started, but we DO know that it is very difficult to get
started. We also know that you need "just so" conditions to
sustain life. That's why life is only known on Earth in our solar system
(we are unable to observe sufficient details to know whether life exists in
any of the billions of other solar systems).

The stuff about sharks and alligators is typical of the smoke-and-mirrors
nonsense that issues from ID supporters. The awkward fact is that much of
science concerns tricky details - you have to do some serious reading to
understand the issues. When you consider how astonishingly many species
exist today, I don't know why anyone would want to find a shark with an
alligator's head. Hint: An alligator's head is most useful when attached to
an alligator's body and used in an alligator's habitat.

The "why no other intelligent ape" speculation is typical of what
I would expect from a child enquiring about Santa Claus. Some actual
thinking and reading reveals that it takes a really long time to evolve
intelligence. We are not going to observe it! Also, once you get one
dominant species, you aren't going to get another.

John

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5