From: "John Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com> Subject: Re: The Survival Of The Fittest Floom Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:18:51 -0500 >It doesn't matter whether the odds are against "just the right >mutation showing up at just the right time." The point is that it does >happen. Look at the incredible variety of life that exists on this >planet now; then remember the great extinctions that have happened at >the end of every era. Not only have just the right mutations shown up, >but they have shown up more than once! > >-Matt Matt, Matt , Matt, don't get too puffed up in all your pretty finery of "modern ideas", the pretensions of your convictions are no where supported by Nietzsche's philosophy which is why you duck and hide when confronted by his powerful thought. Evolution, what's in a word? It's metaphysical base resides in the Faustian idea of directional time and the destiny idea. The same root feeling which gave every town a clock tower gave us evolution. And has the idea of evolution been improved upon since Goethe wrote in Faust Part II: "With Dolphin-Proteus Forth we Ride! Mount my back, and joys attend you: Let the ocean be your bride. Submit to a request so winning, And start to be at the beginning. Accept swift working of the plan: Then following eternal norms, You move through multitudinous forms, To reach at last the state of man." The above is a good example of physiognomic insight and in no way has the evolution idea been improved upon since. As for you Matt, puzzle this, all your arguments deal with the evolution of life forms, and offer no expaination for the origin of life itself. Please spare us ridiculous bullshit about lightning strikes suddenly creating life! We all know full well nothing like this can even begun to be scientifically proven. Empty theories as the basis for conviction is all that the modern ideas of the herd have to offer. What did Nietzsche mean when he wrote science was theology's handmaid for too long? John T. Duryea --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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