After all, its clear we only exist to feed bacteria....as long as you believe it was all "designed".
2007-07-10 11:12:54 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't own a Gould book but I know I've read a couple. Is it possible I read this and tucked it away for 5 years?
2007-07-10 11:18:23 · update #1
Now, Diamond, I've read a few books by.
An evolutionary biologist dropping the hammer on economic history? Count me in.
2007-07-10 11:27:28 · update #2
Yuppers...
"It's uncertain whether intelligence has any long term survival value. Bacteria do quite well without it." -- Stephen Hawking [ recently thrilled to have been in zero gravity! ]
2007-07-10 11:15:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
They've been here longer. They have overcome more. They'll last almost as long as the planet itself. All other life forms are at their service. They have caused the biggest mass extinction on the planet.
They have also "helped" human societies - helped, if you are on the winning side. Not so good if you were existing perfectly all right without ever having encountered smallpox.
Read "The Fourth Horseman" by Andrew Nikiforouk and, especially, "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond.
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Yeah, this is Gould's stuff. Very inspiring though.
2007-07-10 11:20:11 · answer #2 · answered by Bad Liberal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ridiculious. Obviously, rocks are His chosen ones. Anyone looking around at the world will notice that rocks, not humans, are the most successful. He attempted to educate us blaspheming humans through Gary Dahl, who, in 1975, invented the pet rock as a way of spreading the holy word.
2007-07-10 18:36:10 · answer #3 · answered by eV 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cracking craniums again I see... I like this question for two reasons.
Reason 1. Good luck explaining bacterial design and function to the "chosen ones", this should be good)
Reason 2. I am just about to level 2 and I haven't even been deleted. Woo-hoo!
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070710131857AAzXIXW&r=w
2007-07-10 13:55:02 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Uuuuhhhh......WHAT? I don't want any of what you're using. For one thing our physical relationship with bacteria goes both ways, we help each other.uuuuummmmmmmm I'm not sure how you came up with that s**t. Why so bitter?
I don't get it, and I think I'm glad I don't.
Where did you find this "clear" info. the inside of stall walls?
Good Luck finding your brain, and God Bless.
2007-07-10 11:23:47 · answer #5 · answered by Linda B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have a good point, but apparently the Jews are. Out of all the people in the world, he just had to choose the Jews.
Yes, I can understand how you guys don't like Christianity. I don't like Jews, either.
2007-07-10 11:16:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is one way of looking at it.
Bacteria that live in our gut feed off our nutrients and the moment we die, they turn nasty and start digesting us! Along with their putrification flesh-eating buddies.
Bacteria can reproduce and adapt so quickly it is terrifying, they will (and perhaps have?) infiltrate us and the whole world.
2007-07-10 11:25:19 · answer #7 · answered by Tsumego 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bacteria are the absolute proof of evolution.We try to kill them and they adapt to our methods and evolve ways to survive -neat
If you want see something really interesting google "stromatolites" and go to images
2007-07-10 11:37:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Blasphemer! You left out viruses! Shame on you. For that you shall suffer a spankie.
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2007-07-10 11:16:29 · answer #9 · answered by vinslave 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They are #1 by numbers and by biomass.
2007-07-10 11:52:26 · answer #10 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋