The Evolution of Earth... Technology... ?

Oh, really????? :bugeye: Then you must deny that evolution is a real process because that's precisely THE mechanism that it depends on. No genetic mutations equals no evolution at all.

 

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'Mother nature' has no sympathy. A power greater than her own though what would that be? Do tell?

 

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Whatever can create and destroy a cosmos?

 

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Physics?

 

Global warming?

 

Read-Only. No chemical in the environment has ever produced a beneficial change in us. Such changes are fast, in just years, and cannot account for evolution.

Background radiation and cosmic rays are both radiation. Only in Marvel Comics does radiation produce beneficial mutations. Anywhere else it causes damage to cells.

What came first, the chicken or the egg? Easy, the egg because grown things do not mutate. Evolutionary changes take place in the womb and it is known that what was wrongly called "junk DNA" (90% of our DNA) sometimes combines to form beneficial and sometimes non-beneficial mutations. The good ones survive and go on to breed, the bad ones don't.

 

Deep Thought. Evolution does not keep going forever upward in any set direction towards a perfect being. It enables us to survive best in the present environment. Mammoths were superior in size to elephants but were too slow and needed too much food. It is said that Neanderthals were superior to use in a number of ways and yet we were the ones best adapted to survive and they died out. For some reason, it became important that we lose our hair.

The Black Death wiped out 1 in 3 people in Europe and was said to have been caused by fleas. Fleas love hair and fur. In a time when the average lifespan was 30 (all BC), these fleas and such could have been a major killer amongst tribes of early men as they spread diseases so that the ones who survived best and so lived long enough to breed were those with ever less hair?

Evolution works on the predator-prey cycle. If prey is too good, the predators go hungry and do not survive. If as you say, a super-predator emerges, then it kills everything else before starving to death from lack of prey.

Our brains enabled us to rise to the top of the food chain, to be able to overcome the abilities of other animals. Man started off as a scavenger but spears and such enabled him to kill his own food rather than relying on others. we know that men drove mammoths off cliff edges by making them stampede. With our brains, we no longer needed brute force.

What we call mother nature is just the evolving universe. What can be greater? Not a mythical god(s) that we have created in our more primitive days as a way of explaining how things worked.