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JonF
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10-15-2003 10:12 PM 		Reply to: Message 7 by mike the wiz
10-15-2003 10:06 PM

Species that "need to evolve urgently" don't. They go extinct. I've heard estimates of the percentage of all species that are extinct that are in the high 90's.
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JonF
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10-16-2003 8:48 PM 		Reply to: Message 13 by mike the wiz
10-15-2003 10:43 PM

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Species that "need to evolve urgently" don't. They go extinct.
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Which is my point entirely. I do not think we would have survived millions of years.
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Personal incredulity is not evidence, nor does the Universe "care" what you think or do not think.
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The evidence, as cited by others already, demonstrates that you are wrong.
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10-21-2003 9:07 AM 		Reply to: Message 57 by nator
10-21-2003 8:41 AM

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And the Second Law of Thermodynamics (I have heard this argued in a circle and concluded that backpedaling is a useful way to renege on an argument that you introduced)
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...which applies only to closed systems, which the Earth is not because our Sun pumps enormous amounts of energy into the system.
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One of my pet peeves ...
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The second law of thermodynamics applies to all systems. The statement "entropy never decreases" applies only to closed systems, but is not a valid statment of the second law because it's incomplete.
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