So you're assuming that a book or person always has to be interpreted one way, either literally or otherwise, but not that some parts are meant to be taken literally whereas other parts may not be?
I'd consider that reasoning to be suspect. Since modern science only began to understand the workings of DNA some 50+ years ago, I wouldn't rest my faith on what they think they know right now. Tom C. >From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: Global warming was: The Nine-spotted >Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 15:40:54 -0400 > >Genetic drift puts the event well into prehistory. If I was going to >literally interpret the bible I'd have to ignore way too many other >facts... > >Tom C wrote: > > Odd how that scientific study seems to correlate with Noah (1), his >three > > sons (3) and their respective wives (4). 1 + 3 + 4 = 8. > > > > Feel free to ignore the seeming coincidence. > > > > Tom C. > > > > > > > >> From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <[email protected]> > >> Subject: Re: Global warming was: The Nine-spotted > >> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 12:29:11 -0400 > >> > >> That's true, but in hard times, (and there have been a lot of hard > >> times), something as anti survival as a resource hungry giant brain, > >> that hasn't yet reached real survival value, (and the brain is very > >> resource hungry), would be very anti-survival. I don't remember >exactly > >> where I've read this but, I seem to recall that at one point the > >> progenitors of current humanity were down to 8 or so individuals, >(based > >> on some genetic study or other). That is rather extreme speciation > >> The only other modern species that had such a close call are cheetahs, > >> at a much later time period. > >> > >> AlunFoto wrote: > >> > >>> Human brain development may well be a runaway evolution process, just > >>> like the tail feathers of paradise birds, reindeer antlers, etc. etc. > >>> Any feature that enhance your probability of reproduction can continue > >>> evolving far beyond mere likelihood of survival. > >>> > >>> There's a lot of literature... > >>> > >>> Jostein > >>> > >>> 2007/6/13, P. J. Alling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> > >>> > >>>> No you've not paid attention to the literature. A larger brain is > >>>> helpful up to the point where it stops helping with basic survival. > >>>> This happens quite a bit smaller than ours. In fact at the size of > >>>> > >> homo > >> > >>>> habilis, after that, until the advent of true tool making and real > >>>> cooperation beyond a hunt it's just dead weight. The brain is >ghastly > >>>> expensive in energy resources for the human body and incremental > >>>> > >> changes > >> > >>>> in size from that point don't add to capabilities enough to make up >for > >>>> the costs. The development of a larger than needed brain was not >pure > >>>> chance, it was incremental, but with no practical survival value. > >>>> > >>>> graywolf wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> No, you are missing a point there, Peter. Non-survival traits do >away > >>>>> > >> with a line. Survival traits give it a boost. But traits that do not >affect > >> survival are a dice roll, which is the point you are missing. Pure >chance, > >> in other words. > >> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> -- > >>>> All dogs have four legs; my cat has four legs. Therefore, my cat is a > >>>> > >> dog. > >> > >>>> -- > >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >>>> [email protected] > >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> > >> -- > >> All dogs have four legs; my cat has four legs. Therefore, my cat is a >dog. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > >> [email protected] > >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > >> > > > > > > > > > > >-- >All dogs have four legs; my cat has four legs. Therefore, my cat is a dog. > > >-- >PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >[email protected] >http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
