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Article #1234Re: Scientism? - Creationism v. Evolution
From: Don H
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 21:53
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 21:53
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A few mutant cavemen or minor tribes might survive, but on a plundered planet with no hope of ever rising above their current level. Eventually even they would be wiped out - by predators, disease, or other natural forces. ========================= "EarlCox" <earlcox@earlcoxreports.com> wrote in message news:xhCkc.134935$04.3005995@twister.southeast.rr.com... > I agree that humanity is consuming resources at a devastating rate, > polluting the atmosphere and the oceans, and breeding at a rate that poses a > significant danger to the global ecosystem. But there is a difference > between the collapse of societies and civilization and the extinction on > mankind. We might destroy our ability to support a global industrial and > knowledge-based society and we might, through global warming, raise the sea > level by two meters so that our major cities, principal ports and commerce > centers are flooded, and we might even, through religious intolerance, > explode dirty bombs in our cities and release plague weapons over our > population. But such actions would simply make civilization as we know it > impossible or improbable or highly scattered into closed versions of the > ancient city-states. Humanity would continue. Human beings would exist > throughout the world. It would most likely take another KT or > permio-Triassic event to wipe out terrestrial populations on a global scale. > > Earl > > > -- > > > Earl Cox > Founder and President > Scianta Intelligence, LLC > Turn Knowledge Into Intelligence > www.scianta.com > > > AUTHOR: > "The Fuzzy Systems Handbook" (1994) > "Fuzzy Logic for Business and Industry" (1995) > > "Beyond Humanity: CyberEvolution and Future Minds" > (1996, with Greg Paul, Paleontologist/Artist) > > "The Fuzzy Systems Handbook, 2nd Ed." (1998) > "Machine Intelligence Tools for Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery" > (due Early Summer 2004) > ........ >
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