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Re: Grand Revelations
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, ryan richards wrote:
> > "Evolution" to me simply means change over time; it might be
> > accidental, it might not.
>
> I'm trying to catch up on some of your threads so please forgive the
> abruptness. Doesn't evolution at least connotate some kind of
> progression? Change over time could be a digression into chaos,
> couldn't it? Would that still be considered evolution, or do I
> misunderstand?
Evolution is change, and changes that are good for some creatures are bad
for others. Don't quote me on anything scientific, but IIRC, the
introduction of oxygen into our atmosphere, while it made life possible
for us and for lots of other creatures, also made life impossible for
plenty of the creatures that came before us -- to them, it was a poison.
(They may have been microscopic, but they were creatures, nonetheless --
and if I'm wrong on any of this, somebody, please correct me.)
The cataclysm that wiped out the dinosaurs may be considered a digression
into chaos, of a sort, but new complexities arose out of that.
--- Peter T. Chattaway --------------------------- peter at chattaway_com ---
"I detected one misprint, but to torture you I will not tell you where."
Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence, re Seven Pillars of Wisdom
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