@farmerman,
Quote:Darwin suggested that all of life is a"web or a bush " of ascendancy
If he did it would be wrong.
If dinosaurs evolved from smaller organisms. which you accept they must have done, then they could appear again if the sort of conditions which selected for them were to return.
In which case they are not extinct. Except maybe to a taxonomist. They are inchoate in life form itself. As is a statue in a block of marble. To say that the statue exists because it was chipped out of marble is as useless as saying opium induces sleep or a trance because it is a soporific or a narcotic.
How did animate life ,
elan vital. an evolutionist's term, arise from inanimate matter, if it was not inchoate in it. Animism justified for want of any other explanation.
And don't say we will find the explanation if sufficient funds were to be allocated because we won't. And it would be no good to the consumers of the funds if they did find the explanation because further funds, that most joyous of prospects which induce sweet dreams, would be cut off.
And the more people who swallow the science pill entire the more likely funds will be allocated for what is nothing but a delightful wild goose chase. And all the more so if we seem to be getting nearer under the bludgeonings of long-word bullshit.
Beware taxpayers!!!!! There are some shifty looking carpetbaggers about with glib and greasy tongues who intend showing priests how pick-pocketing should be done. There's no using the fingers to hide the dime being placed next to the silver dollar on the velvet-lined collection plate with this team. A battery of accountants are necessary.
They have anybody interested in how life on earth began by the short and curlies and are intent on applying a nit-comb to them.
One can easily see, forgetting any re-cycling of value or value in kind, the latter being the only value in the priesthood, which one didn't ought to do except in the emergency of trying to keep it simple, ....one can easily see why the question of the origins of all this **** is so important to them and it being necessarry to persuade the hard pressed gumps from sea to shining sea that it is justly so.
Science can defend itself on the better mousetrap principle and needs no justification from weavers of the winds. The guys who perfected the pull-top beer can never gave the origin of life a moment's thought. And they were scientists. And jolly good ones. Even though it took a few years to iron out the very serious flaws of the early versions. As with motor cars. Spacecraft. Every bloody thing.
Motor cars are now designed psychologically. For equipment fetishists/ control freaks. Comfort went out of the window when bench seats in the front disappeared. It became necessary to imitate a fighter pilot's arrangement and, from what I have seen, a space captain's console.
I have seen a chap with one of those contraptions, with his wife in the front seat, drive over to pick up another couple for a night out and it be axiomatic that the wife gets herself into the back seat with the other lady because, I assume, it is demeaning to a man to ride in the back. Unless it is four chaps heading for a bank heist.
Old customs die hard don't they Meestah Misogynist. (Closet version.)
