puff
17th December 2006, 12:25 AM
I have recently started reading this book written by Dawkins,its kind of getting wired to something real , first few chapters is about bats , uuuuuhhh , how does a bat catch a insect in the dark with no vision , as it turns out 400 pulses per second does the job , something like the same rate of pulse as a florescent light . bats literaly see with their ears , they convert sound waves like we convert light waves ,whats more they only convert their own sound waves , ignoring all the other bats .
Dawkins goes into lots of philosophical detail about how these sophisticated systems have evolved by a natural process ,
whats really got me thinking tho is this ,for this process to work , the mother fish has to convey so much information about its envoiroment into its eggs , gradually over time assimilating such things as comorflage , shape and every natural instinct neccesary for survival , the real god of creation it would seem is the envoiroment we breed and survive in , for instance a human growing up continually amongst a dense city envoiroment over a few generations will evolve into a very different species than a jungle dweller , this would involve physical changes in as well as mental .
have you noticed how much faster new children are adapting to technology , this would appear to be no accident , for some reason around here anyhow , every child is taller than there parents , this has been going on for a while as a couple of hundred years ago the average hieght of europeans was about 5 ft , how long will it take for the ave to reach 8 ft ,
i cant really go into all the stuff that dawkins talks about , but at last i feel that i am in the hands of somebody who knows his stuff, what about building a spiritual code of ethics around evolutionary ideas , what about this one
stress relief ...
the sun comes up , the little flowers open their petals and the bees start buzzing , buzzzzzzzzzzzz
but nowhere do we find one bee polinating one flower forever and ever and ever , if we did we would find a very frustrated bee and a very frustrated flower , and they probably wouldn,t produce much either.
what about baptising a skunk to try and stop him having such a smelly habit ( 100% failure rate ),
well i could go on but probably most of you already stopped reading sometime ago
any other ideas about redeeming nature through religious idealism
Dawkins goes into lots of philosophical detail about how these sophisticated systems have evolved by a natural process ,
whats really got me thinking tho is this ,for this process to work , the mother fish has to convey so much information about its envoiroment into its eggs , gradually over time assimilating such things as comorflage , shape and every natural instinct neccesary for survival , the real god of creation it would seem is the envoiroment we breed and survive in , for instance a human growing up continually amongst a dense city envoiroment over a few generations will evolve into a very different species than a jungle dweller , this would involve physical changes in as well as mental .
have you noticed how much faster new children are adapting to technology , this would appear to be no accident , for some reason around here anyhow , every child is taller than there parents , this has been going on for a while as a couple of hundred years ago the average hieght of europeans was about 5 ft , how long will it take for the ave to reach 8 ft ,
i cant really go into all the stuff that dawkins talks about , but at last i feel that i am in the hands of somebody who knows his stuff, what about building a spiritual code of ethics around evolutionary ideas , what about this one
stress relief ...
the sun comes up , the little flowers open their petals and the bees start buzzing , buzzzzzzzzzzzz
but nowhere do we find one bee polinating one flower forever and ever and ever , if we did we would find a very frustrated bee and a very frustrated flower , and they probably wouldn,t produce much either.
what about baptising a skunk to try and stop him having such a smelly habit ( 100% failure rate ),
well i could go on but probably most of you already stopped reading sometime ago
any other ideas about redeeming nature through religious idealism