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JoG
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Message 1 of 5 (23300)
11-19-2002 8:32 PM


My friend and I got into a huge arguement regarding Evolution and intelligence. He is convinced somehow that evolution's ultimate goal is to develop intelligent life and that if the dinosaurs' lived long enough they would have develop high level intelligense.. I beg to differ. First evolution should not be personified into some force with a conscious drive to make intelligent life. Second, Intelligence is just one option out of endless amount of options that are capable through the process of evolution. If you added up all the insects plants and animals existing on the planet from the 1st day till now you would see that intelligence occured like .00000000001 % of the time. Thirdly,humans are built perfectly for manipulating our enviroment. We have hands with useable fingers, allowing us to make tools, etc. No other animal can use their body in such ways. And it is proven that using and making tools was the first step towards man developing the level of intelligence we see today. I just want to hear what some other intelligent people have to say on the subject.
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JoG
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Message 3 of 5 (23326)
11-20-2002 1:45 AM


In my understanding the dinosaurs were perfect the way they were. That perfection was their strength and killing power. They would never have developed higher level intelligence unless they physically changed into a form that could manipulate the enviroment, like a human. I see no evidence why after nearly 200million years dinosaurs would have taken such a drastic change, physically or mentally. The only thing that wiped out this perfect creature was 3 mile wide hunk of rock traveling 100000 miles/ hour.

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