From: Tim Boyer 

On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 10:15:06 -0400, "Geo"  wrote:

>"Tim Boyer"  wrote in message
>news:e29fg1d6cl62ee6k1mth00jvftkimp4nkf{at}4ax.com...
>
>> Saying something 'devolved' is the problem.  Our sense of smell is not
>what our
>> ancestor's was.  Does that mean we devolved?  Whales can no longer walk on
>the
>> land.  is that devolution?
>
>No it's really simple, you know the evolution diagram of man from ape to
>todays man? Well show me something that has gone thru an evolutionary change
>like that and then backed up a level or two due to change in the environment
>or whatever.
>
>You won't find it, forward evolution may pause but when things change it
>moves forward again never backtracking.
>

Whales.

That 'diagram' is the problem.  You've seen them all your life, and they're
pure bullshit.

There's no 'backing up, because there's no 'advancing'.  The fact that we
evolved from apes does not make us better than apes _unless you can define
what
'better' is_.

Now, I know that sounds like pure PC bullshit - of _course_ we're better
than apes.  OK, put my not-so-hairy ass naked down in the veldt of Africa
and let's see who's better.  The ape is stronger, faster, a better climber,
and protected from the sun - I don't stand a chance.

Dogs are descended from wolves.  Are dogs 'better'?  Are wolves 'backwards'?

You evolve to fill a niche.  It doesn't make you better or worse, just different.

Take whales.  They descended from something that came from the sea.  They
evolved legs.  They went back to the sea, and lost the legs.  Backwards,
right?

Blind fish at the bottom of the ocean.  They evolved eyes, now they don't
have them any more.  Backwards?

Nope.  Forwards; ever forwards.


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tim boyer
tim{at}denmantire.com

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