[extropy-chat] Re: intelligent design homework

[Robert Lindauer]

The Avantguardian wrote:

>--- Robert Lindauer <robgobblin at aol.com> wrote:
>
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>>What we're
>>trying to get at is 
>>large-scale adaptations on the order of
>>Rhinoceros-elephant splits 
>>where the early rhino-fant was split into to two
>>"subspecies" with only 
>>mildly different genetic profiles.   The elephants
>>got trunks, the 
>>rhinos got horns, say.  At some point, though, some
>>particular 
>>rhinofant is no longer able to reproduce with its
>>cousins.
>>    
>>
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>Only pre-genomic era biologists, working entirely on
>morphology, would place elephants in the same clade as
>rhinos. 
>

I was just playing -imagining- is what we were doing, discussing what we 
could -imagine-.


 -great story snipped-

>A few more thousands of generations go by, the slithy
>toves are make a slight comeback because the jubjub
>birds have all been wiped out. But because of the
>progressively cooler climate and the sheer efficiency
>of the burrowers and the runners, insects have been
>becoming more scarce. Thus the burrowers have become
>still larger so that they can eat more types of prey
>like the large borogoves, and occasionally the now
>rare jubjub birds, the pitiful slithy toves. In short,
>they have become full fledged jabberwocks. The runners
>have also become larger and more frumious and have
>become bandersnatchs, and relish chasing down large
>mome raths to feast upon.
>
>     Notice that at no time was there an intelligent
>designer or "mules" involved in the evolution of the
>ecology of the wabe. Just mutation, environmental
>change, and adaptation. 
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>

I, too, can imagine many things.  I'm not claiming it isn't possible, 
just that estimation of its likelihood is subjective.

Best,

Robbie Lindauer