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Originally posted by yamammasamonkey
Funny how all the people who push evolution as a fact, are the same to freak out when natural selection is observed.
Originally posted by votan
reply to post by mahatche
GMO with pesticides look it up
Originally posted by yamammasamonkey
Funny how all the people who push evolution as a fact, are the same to freak out when natural selection is observed.
Around 40 million years ago, smaller snakes appeared who had developed further, adapted to new areas and created new characteristics, and these snakes became members of the colubrid group, which is the biggest snake group today. Colubrids are some of the snakes that are referred to as "New World" snakes. One member of this family is the corn snake!
Originally posted by DarthMuerte
I think she does. Agenda 21 springs to mind.
Originally posted by ohioriver
Most people have an agenda. I wonder if she has one?
This makes habitat loss the biggest threat to reptiles
I have always thought it funny that he always talks about aliens, and how they would react to to encountering humans (usually in a negative way). Firstly, I am pretty sure they would be overjoyed to meet another race capable of communicating complex ideas.
Secondly, if this race has the ability to traverse the vast distances of space they would have had to harness some incredible energy source which likely took them thousands of years to develop, thus they would have had to consumed, and consumed, multiplied, and multiplied.
I truly believe that a space faring races home planet would look like something out of Bladerunner.
So would they be shocked to see are world in its present shape? Of course they would not, because they more than likely went through the same thing.
There is that, but the fact of the matter is that usually when any organism meets another there is bound to be problems.
Well what happened when Columbus and the Spanish came to the new world to the original inhabitants?
No doubt some would. But you dont know that for sure, and even the whole cumulative knowledge of humanity is not even sure or vast enough to place a safe bet on what the next 10 years are going to be like, or even the next ten days. So how do you know what other civilizations are going to be like?
It could be anything from they would see us as ants and would not notice if they steeped on this planet,
to they could be traveling around the universe in space ships using mind power and there ships are powered by unicorn farts and happy thoughts, and if they tried to teach humanity anything it would be like humanity trying to teach chimps how to do calculus.
So what are you saying that there cheesy?
You have a point, and there sure as hell would be problems when we encountered another intelligent race.
However, the comparison to Columbus is actually fairly flawed. Columbus was a 15th century Spanish explorer/colonizer/slaver who lived in a world of limited resources, and archaic tradition. A race capable of traversing space would logically have had to be quite peaceful to achieve the level of cooperation on there planet to instigate the engineering projects that would allow for interstellar/intergalactic travel
They would also have no reason to conquer another species, as the galaxy/universe is at there finger tips and they would arguably have unlimited resources.
Richard Dawkins believes that even the biological prerequisites of human like intelligence would have to be very very similar in alien races, and I tend to agree, although I am not an educated scientist. My point being that there are universal constants present in reality that simply can't be "different" depending on where you are in the universe.
Than they would be immoral. We are intelligent beings capable of understanding reality, thus they would have no right to think of us as lesser beings. Sure they may be smarter than us, but do you consider yourself "superior" to rural natives of Papua New Guinea?
It is a like a Christian or Muslim saying God has the right to do anything he wants to his creation, because his morality is greater, BS.
I disagree, sure they would do and have things we would not understand, but that does not mean we are incapable of understanding.
I mean think about it, there is a plethora of theory out there about how we can achieve interstellar travel, the only thing we are missing are the resources to actually achieve it, not a total lack of understanding of the science. If an alien being thought us a chimp, than we are chimps that know the composition, and mass of a star.
HEY! Bladerunner was not cheesy! Honestly I think that is a very good interpretation of the future with some minor exceptions (i.e. flying cars).