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Silent3

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30. Fossil record
Wed Apr 11, 2012, 03:45 PM
Apr 2012

There's plenty of evidence of disease and injury in the fossil record. And in the nearer term, well before Monsanto or the supposed evils of science and technology, there's plenty of historical records of childhood and other diseases. For most of the time humanity has been on this planet, infant mortality has been very high, and average lifespans have been 18-40 years.

Besides, even if there were a complete absence of evidence, do you think the benefit of the doubt goes toward imagining the human past was some paradise of long, healthy lives, that people, by being so bad and naughty, destroyed?

You know, some days I really want to believe in a Higher Power... LAGC Apr 2012 #1
I tend to believe the "flaw" is in the nature of man, rather than the biology. FedUpWithIt All Apr 2012 #2
If our biology was better, a lot of flaws "in the nature of man" wouldn't matter Silent3 Apr 2012 #8
God didn't screw up, the human race screwd up, on their own. Not fair to point fingers. crunch60 Apr 2012 #3
take a walk through any big children's hospital......who screwed them up? Namvet67 Apr 2012 #6
Something in a screwed up DNA. Parents pass on to their children many anomalies. Humans crunch60 Apr 2012 #24
Oh, bullshit Silent3 Apr 2012 #28
So tell me, just how do you know what childhood diseases were around a million years ago? crunch60 Apr 2012 #29
Fossil record Silent3 Apr 2012 #30
If a god gets credit for "saving" and healing the sick,...then... Namvet67 Apr 2012 #47
That's a good argument if one believes that god actually saves or heals the sick. cbayer Apr 2012 #49
yes.....i agree Namvet67 Apr 2012 #50
So it's a good argument for the vast majority of US Christians? trotsky Apr 2012 #52
If procreation is based solely on the process of evolution, LARED Apr 2012 #4
That's a very good question. LAGC Apr 2012 #5
Not defective, just a genetic variant. trotsky Apr 2012 #7
AMEN Namvet67 Apr 2012 #48
The process of evolution is mindless, it doesn't care about all the wrong turns... Silent3 Apr 2012 #10
Very well put. n/t trotsky Apr 2012 #11
Why "mindless"? tama Apr 2012 #14
Now that we have evolved intelligence, we can of course try (however imperfectly!) to manipulate... Silent3 Apr 2012 #16
And in this state of evolution tama Apr 2012 #20
You can call evolution "Susan" or "prismatic parking crate" if you like. Silent3 Apr 2012 #27
I'm not calling it "Susan" tama Apr 2012 #31
Do you think that evolution has a thought process? Goblinmonger Apr 2012 #32
Word games tama Apr 2012 #37
If intentionality can happen without thinking... Silent3 Apr 2012 #38
Are you suggesting with your intention tama Apr 2012 #40
I'm sure that elsewhere in the living world... Silent3 Apr 2012 #42
What's blatantly obvious? Silent3 Apr 2012 #33
I see now that your confusion arises tama Apr 2012 #39
No, I don't think you're talking about ID, but I would guess that there's... Silent3 Apr 2012 #41
Intention tama Apr 2012 #43
So what? Silent3 Apr 2012 #44
So to clarify confusions tama Apr 2012 #45
Saying that muffins are an emergent property of train stations is truly... Silent3 Apr 2012 #46
Individuals don't evolve. Mariana Apr 2012 #13
I do evolve, also as individual nt tama Apr 2012 #15
There are two different meanings of "evolve" going on there Silent3 Apr 2012 #17
Theories and meanings of evolution tama Apr 2012 #21
You're not "evolving" here... Silent3 Apr 2012 #26
There's no confusion except in your posts tama Apr 2012 #35
Age of reproduction isn't cultural evolution Silent3 Apr 2012 #36
You know, some posts just aren't worth the effort Mariana Apr 2012 #22
I guess I'm too stubborn and argumentative to easily let some things slide. Silent3 Apr 2012 #34
you are also trying to educate......keep it up Namvet67 Apr 2012 #51
Are you joking, or do you really not understand evolution? laconicsax Apr 2012 #25
No argument from me on that. ProfessionalLeftist Apr 2012 #9
Knees. Warren Stupidity Apr 2012 #12
Forget the knees, how about the eye! eqfan592 Apr 2012 #18
Or the human body's response to spinal injury Silent3 Apr 2012 #19
You think that's bad. Sometimes he must really just have a bad day. cbayer Apr 2012 #23
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