William,
It sounds good. I "get" the function of holocaust now: the example of MERSA is
a particularly good one, and resonates gratingly with me (a colleague lost his
wife to it when she was in for a "routine and minor" surgery).
OK, but I can't (this instant) imagine a catastrophe that would selectively
eliminate all but specially spiritually or mentally mutated humans. And I
don't think that that is what Merle had in mind. I think her shift goes more
along the lines of some sort of miracle that takes place in less than 500
generations. "The Dawning of the Age of Aquarius": like that.
I used to think that only Spelunkers and hard-rock miners would survive nuclear
holocaust during the Cold War, provided they were caving when the bombs
dropped. But of course that too was wrong, because it's the Nuclear Winter and
radiation that would get everybody, just coming out of a burrow.
I'll give some thought to your final two sentences. Going out, to walk around.
A rare, cool cloudy day in the desert, after a rain 12 hours ago: VERY rare.
Thank you!!
--Joe
> William Rintala <brintala@...> wrote:
>
> Catastophists beleive that the mutations currently exist, that the
> catastrophic
> event needs only to occur to eliminate those least fit to survive, allowing
> the
> mutation to dominate. Take virology. We now have created bacteria such
> as MRSA, VRE and CRE
> who exist because they survived their Holocaust. This evolutionary
> development
> has happened has appened within a human lifetime. I didn't cite Auschwitz as
> a
> specific event but to pose the possiblity of a Global Holocaust, say the
> rapid
> spread of a disease with no known cure. Something catastrophic, say for
> instance the deaths of 3/4 of life on the planet. Something that affects us
> all.
> What of Spiritual Evolution then? I'm really just arguing on Merle's side.Â
>
> Firstly that Evolution, as a process, is gradual but that Evolutionary change
> on
> a broad scale is sudden. Secondly, what does it take to get people to drop
> all
> of their conventional, rote, belief systems and question things like the
> existence of God and the meaning of Life? Can't we equate this last part
> to an
> Evolutionary process?
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