Quoting ARLO J BENSINGER JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> [Platt]
> I can see this conversation is going nowhere. I never said the cells respond 
> to
> DQ.
> 
> [Arlo]
> I asked, "When did single animals lose their ability to respond to DQ?". And
> you replied, "It was when animals became static patterns."
> 
> I don't understand the statement "animals lost their ability to respond to DQ
> when they became static patters". Are you saying there was a time when an
> animal was NOT a static pattern? 

Yes. Please keep your attention focused on "an animal." 

> Let me try the original question again.
> 
> Was there ever a single animal that could respond to DQ?

Yes.

> What is an example of something it could do "then" (when it could respond to
> DQ) that it can no longer do?

It died. 

> When you respond to these, here are two more.
> 
> Could ALL single animals at one point in time respond to DQ? Was it only
> particular "species"? Or only certain individuals within a species?

An individual.

> Did all animals lose their ability to respond to DQ when "man" popped up? If
> no, why? If so, how?

All animals? No. 

> [Platt]
> And if you think the wind and tide respond to DQ -- well, we will never agree
> because the wind and tides are going nowhere from an evolutionary perspective.
> 
> [Arlo]
> Would you say that evolution has completely stopped on all levels except for
> "man" (his intellect, not his biological body)?

No. There is evolution in both the social and intellectual levels, and possibly
in man's biology as it becomes connected to computers.   

> Could you envision the possibility that evolution
> is still occurring on either the inorganic or biological (or social) levels
> somewhere?

Somewhere? Perhaps. Somewhere is a pretty big space.

> In other words, is it just "on earth" that all evolution has
> stopped? Or has it stopped everywhere? (Again, just asking for you to 
> speculate
> based on your view)
 
Evolution has not stopped "on earth."


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