RE: evolution

From: Lawrence DeBivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Sun 08 Dec 2002 - 17:34:04 GMT

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    Don't forget the simple matter of individually created vision, persuasion, planning and decision-making. These introduce new elements into the evolutionary process, and I would not be surprised if some day way in the future, it is realized that these came to play a greater current role in human evolution than the traditional 'natural' unconscious processes of evolution, mutation and selection. For lack of a better term, I call these new elements, and the way they are managed, evolutionary development, or conscious evolution.

    Best regards, Lawry

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    >
    > On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 10:02 AM, Grant Callaghan wrote:
    >
    > > we can see a short way through the darkness ahead using the headlights
    > > of science and logic.
    >
    > Religion was needed (IMHO it ain't no more) when there was no light
    > ahead, and the next step was just as unknown as the width and depth of
    > the ocean.
    >
    > Not to say that science and logic cast that much illumination, but,
    > since they are not divinations, it is real light, within reality's
    > spectrum.
    >
    > - Wade
    >
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