@Herald,
there is no fast rule that says all things MUST KEEP EVOLVING. We have many species that, since their first appearances in the geologic record , have maintained ther standard appearances. Dinosaurs lasted for almost 200 million years and merely "budded" into new orders. (Alligators and crocs, and caymans, and garials etc have done the same--Several species of Mega Crocs have gone extinct).
SO WHAT?
The pool of animal species that have lived goes into many BILLIONS. Those that have successfully evolved and not gone extinct are in the neighborhood of 0.00001% .
Our chances of "evolving" are much lower than the probability of extinction.
PS-virus arent even considered living species
Quote: (250 buillion years is a lot of time, FM
How long is a soup year?
Quote: and how did you come to know that you are a cousin of the Dinos and you are going to take off from the ground any moment?
This is news to me. I shall begin practicing my take-offs in the AM. I am playing chess right now.
Quote: it is not a matter whether irrefutable or not
oh, on the contrary, it AL:L depends upon the irrefutability of the evidence so that it can be reproduced , evaluated etc. Can experiment be creted that test the evidence?
Ah yes, irrefutability od quite imposrtnt. (Unlike Dr Behes newest bullshit about Quinine resistance of malarial pathogens and how comples is this asset)
Mahhhvelously is a perfectly acceptable word in AMerican vernacular. You probably weren't even born when the term was used on SNL.