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Evolution and complexity

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Dr Adequate
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Message 30 of 113 (403401)
06-02-2007 12:58 PM 		Reply to: Message 23 by MartinV
06-01-2007 3:37 PM

They Laughed At Bozo The Clown
The same denigration - or even worse - experienced Giordano Bruno, who paid with the same coin and denigrated Oxford doctors as well.
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"Alas, to wear the mantle of Galileo it is not enough that you be persecuted by an unkind establishment; you must also be right."
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History repeated. Let me quote Giordano Bruno who faced out Oxford doctors and scientific estabishment of his time ...
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Actually, he was burned alive by the religious establishment of his time.
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06-02-2007 11:19 PM 		Reply to: Message 31 by ircarrascal
06-02-2007 3:07 PM

Sorry ...
Oh men, I ask a couple of simple questions and some people treat me like a total fool. I thought I'd get a better welcome here.
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Well ... we're not all mean all of the time.
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On the other hand ... suppose a biologist came on to a forum about astronomy and asked you guys to explain how the sun stays up in the sky when gravity pulls it down. I bet some of you would have pulled his leg.
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06-25-2007 11:28 PM 		Reply to: Message 55 by Simonsays
06-25-2007 6:55 PM

Re: I don't think so !
Very interesting... Now if you could list for me some of those same mechanisms which under selective pressure lead to stasis ,(ie; balance,equilibrium,or stoppage of flow.)(from the American Heritage Dictionary), instead of different rates of change, then you might actually have a warrant to support your assertion.
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A rate of change of 0 is stasis.
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