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From: Amy Hebert <yelorose@swbell.net>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 09:10:51 -0500
Fwd Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 02:49:01 -0400
Subject: Re: Panspermia


 >Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 21:35:26 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time)
 >From: Nick Balaskas <nikolaos@YorkU.CA>
 >To: UFO UpDates - Toronto <updates@globalserve.net>
 >Subject: Re: Panspermia

<snip>

 >They will also honestly admit that even with the present age of
 >the universe, up from hundreds of millions of years at the time
 >of Darwin a century ago to tens of billions of years now, there
 >is still simply not enough time for life to have evolved to
 >produce what we have at present.

I'm wondering if anyone has ever calculated a projected
evolutionary profile of a species based on known parameters of
that species' evolution to date?

Scientists have calculated the probability of planets out there
that may contain life (Drake Equation) so why can't they
calculate the probable evolution of a given species based on the
rate of evolution observed thus far?  Anyone for "quantum
evolution"? ;>

Hey, Nick, why don't you challenge your scientist friends to
come up with a formula to calculate probable evolution?  I
wonder if applying such a formula to the human species - based
on the rate of human evolution thus far - we may find we have
evolved  more or less compared to our rate of evolution in the
past.

Nah, just the controversy alone over such a forumla would set
humankind back another million years. <grin>


Amy
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