Re: World Gathering - 25 & 26 August 2007

Bitstring <sxz7i.10083$I55.6921@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, from the wonderful person Jim Ford <jaford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said
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Protoplasm is infinitely malleable - the mill of evolution grinds inexorably. And we don't stand outside of it - we're right there in with the rest of the life forms on this planet.

Actually evolution hasn't worked properly, at least not 'normally', on much of the human race for many centuries now, and the effect is getting more significant recently. Why? .. welfare, charity, prosthetics (e.g. glasses), medicine(s), IVF/Caesarians. Your basic evolution out in the real world would have no truck with any of that .. 'survival of the fittest', except now we have the goal that =everyone= should survive ..

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