At 07:09 PM Sunday 9/18/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote:
On Sep 18, 2005, at 4:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the end macroevolution is simply evolution
occurring over long periods of time. Trends in
evolution reflect the ability of biotic life to
probe the environment to discover new and better ways to make a "living".
What many might not grasp is how very much time
is actually required. It "only" took 500 MY for
life to go from trilobites to us, but 500 MY is
a tremendous amount of time that really can't
easily be understood in human terms. Given time
enough, evolution from one species to another
can happen and has in truth been recorded in
fossil records for large organisms however
inconceivable it might seem to some.
"Only" is applicable in the sense that from the
Cambrian "explosion" to the present is <15% of
the total age of the Earth, and trilobites are even more recent.
--Ronn! :)
"Since I was a small boy, two states have been
added to our country and two words have been
added to the pledge of Allegiance... UNDER
GOD. Wouldn't it be a pity if someone said that
is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools too?"
-- Red Skelton
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