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Yes, we can currently kill off other species if we wish.  What I meant was
that a tapeworm has passed the test of adaption - any species now existing
has passed.  However, the human species will kill off "inferior" life-forms
at its peril; wanton destruction of other species ignores how dependent on
them we may be for our own survival.  It will be too late when our own
extinction looms as a result.  As to the human brain, I concede it has
enabled us to adapt - up till now.  But our technical advance has seemingly
outrun our wisdom (except for the Greenies), and with the capitalist cavemen
in charge of the planet, our fate could already be sealed.  Can we put the
brakes on eg. global warming? or is it already too late?  There is nothing
"immortal" about us, even though we tend to think so.
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"Hostman Brevis" <apocalypse_zero@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Don H" <donlhumphries@bigpond.com> wrote in message
> >  - a
> > tapeworm has the same "right" to exist, as the most virtuous human.
> Nopes, don't agree. Worms don't have that right because they are
> inferior organisms. Survival of the fittest means that humans are
> superior to other organisms. Worms are insignificant and I can kill
> them simply because I can. Our ethics has stopped us killing annoying
> species.
>
>
>
> > Indeed,
> > Humans themselves are only an accident of Nature; with our 70 vestigial
> > parts, we are a defective organism, and our disproportionate cerebral
> > cortex, based on primitive instincts, almost guarantees our extinction
in a
> > decade or so.
> WTF are you talking about? Disproportionate cerebral cortex?? Our
> cerebrum is what makes us superior than other species. The best
> invention of nature. Our capacity to adapt to environment is what
> makes is different from other animals. I'm not saying humans stay
> forever, but certainly for a very very long time.
>
> > "God" himself has evolved - from (1) primitive Naturism, through
> > (2) Animism, to
> > (3) Polytheism (when gods and goddesses thrived); declining to -
> > (4) Monotheism, as a result of the "jealous god" tribal deity, to
> > (5) Atheism of recent times.
> > All gods and goddesses are memory projections of our feared
authoritarian
> > ancestors (tribal elders), with "God" being an attenuated, magnified,
image,
> > imposed on the cosmos.
> Nice story, but God is irrelevant to evolution. Non-matter (nothing)
> can't evolve.