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Dr. Michio Kaku
Author of Parallel Worlds; stated in the documentary alien worlds
that life is an accident, millions of accidents, so simple, direct and straight forward. All life on earth is based on pure chance, in a similar pond like the one in your yard. No Morals required. |
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wrote: Author of Parallel Worlds; stated in the documentary alien worlds that life is an accident, millions of accidents, so simple, direct and straight forward. All life on earth is based on pure chance, in a similar pond like the one in your yard. No Morals required. Meaning what? |
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rich hammett wrote in
: In talk.origins sanoi, hitaasti kuin hämähäkki: Author of Parallel Worlds; stated in the documentary alien worlds that life is an accident, millions of accidents, so simple, direct and straight forward. All life on earth is based on pure chance, in a similar pond like the one in your yard. No Morals required. All hail Michio Kaku! Do you think Kakusan really studied the pond in my backyard? How do you think you can maintain a somewhat normal flora and fauna in a southern pond, without killing people, horses, and birds for miles with a mosquito infestation? rich Those must be a different species of mosquito that the mosquitoes in Texas. The ones in Texas only take a about 4-6 ounces and leave it's victim alive to produce more blood. Of course the mosquites are the size of parakeets and generally don't carry small pets off. If you get about 350 of them they can carry a small child off which is the reason for all those "Amber Alerts" you see originating from Texas. rj -- "I'm an atheist, thank God." - Dave Allen |
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bggarchow wrote: wrote: Author of Parallel Worlds; stated in the documentary alien worlds that life is an accident, millions of accidents, so simple, direct and straight forward. All life on earth is based on pure chance, in a similar pond like the one in your yard. I too saw the program and cringed when Dr. Kaku said that because I *knew* it would be mis-interpreted. In scientific context, the terms chance, random and accident mean 'not pre-determined'. Who said it was? The topic of the program was-what might life on other planets look like? What Dr. Kaku ment was that the *specific* course evolution on Earth took was not pre-determined but rather the result of adaptation to chance (not pre-determined)environmental conditions. Chance is not pre-determined. If life exists on other planets, it would probably be very different because conditions there (the chance part) would likely be very different. No Morals required. Huh? survival of the fitest is based on chance. |
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wrote: .. . . . survival of the fitest is based on chance. "Survival of the fittest" as Charles Darwin used the term (Origin, 6th ed)? Or as Herbert Spencer used it? |
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Toss a coin, stand in the wake of a comet.
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["Followup-To:" header set to talk.origins.]
_.-In talk.origins, Dylan wrote the following -._ wrote: . . . . survival of the fitest is based on chance. "Survival of the fittest" as Charles Darwin used the term (Origin, 6th ed)? Or as Herbert Spencer used it? Actually it wasn't used there. It was used after the fact to sum up the theory and he liked it so much he didn't fight it and started using it himself. Or in the words of Bryson in "A Short History of Nearly Everything": Darwin didn't use the phrase "survival of the fittest" in any of his works (though he did express his admiration for it). The expression was coined five years after the publication of On the Origin of Species by Herbert Spencer in Principles of Biology in 1864. Not that I keep up on these types of things. -- .-')) fauxascii.com ('-. | It's a damn poor mind that ' ..- .:" ) ( ":. -.. ' | can only think of one way to ((,,_;'.;' UIN=66618055 ';. ';_,,)) | spell a word. ((_.YIM=Faux_Pseudo :._)) | - Andrew Jackson |
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Bobby D. Bryant wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2005, wrote: survival of the fitest is based on chance. SotF describes a _bias_ to chance. -- Bobby Bryant Austin, Texas Explain, Spock. |
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Dylan wrote:
Explain, Spock. It is only logical. Bob Kolker |
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On Tue, 17 May 2005, "Dylan" wrote:
Bobby D. Bryant wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2005, wrote: survival of the fitest is based on chance. SotF describes a _bias_ to chance. Explain, Spock. SotF means that those that are "more fit" are more likely to survive and reproduce. Chance still plays a role -- even the fittest might be struck by lightning before breeding -- but chance isn't the *only* thing that goes into the determination of which creatures reproduce and which don't. I.e., SotF _biases_ the chance. -- Bobby Bryant Austin, Texas |
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Bobby D. Bryant wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2005, "Dylan" wrote: Bobby D. Bryant wrote: On Tue, 17 May 2005, wrote: survival of the fitest is based on chance. SotF describes a _bias_ to chance. Explain, Spock. SotF means that those that are "more fit" are more likely to survive and reproduce. Chance still plays a role -- even the fittest might be struck by lightning before breeding -- but chance isn't the *only* thing that goes into the determination of which creatures reproduce and which don't. I.e., SotF _biases_ the chance. -- Bobby Bryant Austin, Texas Do you mean that cave fish that have evolved into blindness are more fit than their ancestors? |
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