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- From: m23364@mwunix (James Meritt)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: Next?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.192140.5016@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 19:21:40 GMT
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- In article <BGARWOOD.92Dec23125644@sngldsh.cv.nrao.edu> bgarwood@sngldsh.cv.nrao.edu (Bob Garwood) writes:
- }"JM" == James Meritt <m23364@mwunix> writes:
- }JM> In article <1658@tdat.teradata.COM> swf@tools3teradata.com (Stan Friesen) writes:
- }JM> }In article <1992Dec17.133858.6071@linus.mitre.org>, m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
- }JM> }|>
- }JM> }|> What is next?
- }JM> }|>
- }JM> }|> talk.origins: On the evolutionary side, homo sapiens is seen as merely the most recent
- }JM> }|> step in a series of rungs in a ladder. What do you see as the "next rung"?
- }JM> }
- }JM> }There is no next rung because there *are* *no* *rungs*.
- }JM> }Evolution is *not*, I repeat *not* a ladder, it is a mucking great *bush*.
- }JM> }
- }JM> }Humans are not even the most recent species to evolve. There are several new
- }JM> }species that have evolved in historical times.
- }
- }JM> That's nice. Unfortunately for your "*" speel, I specified one branch in
- }JM> particular...
- }
- }Unfortunately for you, ladders don't have branches. Which is why
- }a bush is a more useful simile (metaphore?) than a ladder and which
- }is clearly where the confusion came from.
-
- So, if you gave it a moments thought, it would have been obvious that I wasn't
- TALKING about the entire thing, wouldn't it? And since I specified the
- lineage, there wouldn't BE any branches... Once they branched out, they were
- no longer included.
-
- Sheesh. Excuse me for thinking. Forget it.
-