From: John Beckett 

"Geo"  wrote in message
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> So what do you think Issac Newton read before he wrote about gravity? It's
> just an idea that's stuck in my head, maybe someday I'll figure out a good
> way to test it, but until we see a few dozen other worlds were life
> developed it's going to be very tough to see a pattern.

I'm not really demanding scholarly standards for a newsgroup posting,
however, it seems you revisit your ideas about evolution having a direction
when given an opportunity. If you're that interested in the issue, how
about reading just a small amount on what evolution is, and how it works.
Re Newton: I imagine he did a bunch of thinking and research before writing
much.

In case you feel like an analogy, the Intelligent Design method to find a
way through a maze would be to use your omnipotent powers to deduce the
best path. Q: "How did you figure out the way?". A: "The ID
did it".

The evolutionary method to find a way through a maze would be to send a
stream of ants into the entrance. At every junction, some ants would go
left, and some would go right. Eventually (given a reasonable kind of
maze), some ants would emerge at the exit. They win. All the other ants
lose. That's evolution - try all possible, small alternatives from your
present position, then select the one that's best.

Actually, my ants are not really a good analogy because evolution chooses
the best from each possible SMALL step, not the best set of overall steps.
That's why many defects in human design are apparent (e.g. before modern
medicine, many mothers would die during childbirth due to the large heads
of their babies).

John

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