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2006-06-26 India-Pakistan

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Posted by john 2006-06-26 16:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The only quibble I have is that I think the madness is closer to running than creeping.

Posted by Xbalanke 2006-06-26 16:44|| 2006-06-26 16:44|| Front Page Top

#2 Yet there is a just arbiter of the superior and inferior creature. It is Darwin. Darwin who decrees that only the fittest of creatures survive in the next generation; who says also that quality of offspring shall often outweigh sheer quantity.

Darwin takes the long view. He can be thwarted for a while. With effort the dross can be preserved and the superior creature corrupted to some extent. But in the end his way will win out, as it is written in every living cell in every living creature.

Darwin despises prayer and supplication, instead honoring only the struggle for survival and the success which comes from success. He damns those who fail in the contest, who do not test their world and their fate, and also those who are content with the status quo.

So looking at Pakistan, one can see it in the clear light of Darwin. What percentage of its people are condemned to extinction? Surely there are at least some who path is to survival and success. The nation itself will stand or fall based not on its members who fail, but on those who pass the great test.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-06-26 16:52|| 2006-06-26 16:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Darwin who decrees that only the fittest of creatures survive in the next generation

Sorta of playing with words. Its more like those able to adapt to their environment are around to reproduce. There's a lot of baggage when using 'survival of the fittest' that doesn't mean necessarily the biggest, strongest, swiftest that survives a changing environment. It's adaptation that Darwin covered. Ask any dinosaur.

Posted by Elmert Jinetle8240 2006-06-26 18:35|| 2006-06-26 18:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Darwin's doing this? Damn. How'd they run the first 4 billion years?

Posted by 6 2006-06-26 18:53|| 2006-06-26 18:53|| Front Page Top

#5 coulda sworn there was sometin' about Natural Selection in theres somewhere

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-06-26 19:32|| 2006-06-26 19:32|| Front Page Top

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