From: "Geo." 

"John Beckett"  wrote
in message news:3f04031b.2915672{at}216.144.1.254...

> I suppose you could define "direction" as "evolving
from less to more
> complex form". Yes, as time passes, more complex organisms arise. However,
> there is every reason to believe that if the dinosaurs had not been wiped
> out, then intelligence as we know it would not have evolved.

Or perhaps lizard people would rule the planet?


> I'm prepared
> to be less dogmatic about this speculation - it is POSSIBLE that
> intelligence may not have evolved because it really wouldn't do you much
> good in Dinosaur Park.

You're kidding right? Pack animals with brains would be most effective.

> Therefore, there is no inevitable direction towards intelligence. Also, if
> the Cuban Missile Crisis had led to a nuclear winter, all intelligent life
> forms may have died. So it is possible that intelligence could be too
> smart for its own good. Maybe in the long term, the bacteria really will
> have the last laugh.

That is a possibility and the only real response I have for it is: we ain't
dead yet..

Geo.

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