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http://post-darwinist.blogspot.com/2008/01/nine-predictions-if-intelligent-design.html
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> Nine predictions, if intelligent design is true
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> 4. The environment will prove far more resilient than eco-doomsayers
> believe. People forget that the Permian extinction wiped out 90% of
> the marine life forms on this planet. Life seems to want to exist on
> this planet, even at the South Pole (cf March of the Penguins).
Well now, THERE's an entirely novel approach to this problem:
don't fret, because even if our actions cause us and most of the other
animals and the plants to go extinct, well hey: something else will
come along in a few million years.
I do believe I'll rush out and buy a Hummer. Make that two Hummers.
> Note:
> I have no time for environment destruction, and personally gave up
> keeping a car, as the simplest and most economical way to reduce my
> environment footprint. But I am NOT waiting for enviro-apocalypse!! -
> I don't believe it will happen. There will be changes. That's all. Not
> the end of the world or anything like it.
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> 5. No account of human evolution will show a long slow emergence from
> unconsciousness to semi-consciousness to consciousness, let alone that
> consciousness is merely the random firing of neurons in the brain.
> However consciousness got started, it appeared rather suddenly and it
> permanently separates humans from our genetic kin,
Well, sure...if you ignore the self-recognition experiments on chimpanzees
and bottlenose dolphins.
-- cary
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