I really don't want to start an argument about evolution, but isn't all
nature based on the survival of the fittest?  If I did not believe this,
then I could not bear the cruel way nature does away with imperfect species.
 
Life makes sense only if it has a reason - survival.  And does not survival
mean that only the fittest should survive?
 
Sylvia S. Edwards
Huntsville, Alabama
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----- Original Message -----
From: Kurt Auffenberg <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 11:37 AM
Subject: Re: [CONCH-L] Rebuttal to "Do Truly Rare Species Exist?"
>
> My only problem with this response is in 4).  Of course, this is only my
> opinion and I fully realize some listeners may find offense, but ......
> The fact that Homo sapiens is out-competing most other species on the
> planet is indeed an evolutionary event, one of monumental proportions.
> Let's not forget what we are and from whence we came.  We are an amazingly
> efficient and successful species, arising just a few hundred thousand
years
> ago.  If another species accomplished what H. sapiens has accomplished
(and
> perhaps one has, but I have brain-lock right now) in that brief time, all
> behaviorists, evolutionists, etc. would sit back in wonderment and awe.
>
> Of course, what goes up, must come down.  We'll see what happens.
>
> Hugs,
>
> Kurt
>
> Kurt
>