To claim that all life is descended from a common ancestor is to make a claim about the origin of life, namely that it only happened once.
“To claim that all life is descended from a common ancestor is to make a claim about the origin of life, namely that it only happened once.” Tailgunner Joe
Try this. :)
“..man is not descended from animals, but rather, vice versa. Put another way, the human being is not “animal plus X.” Rather, various animals are “human prototype minus X,” just as life is not “matter plus Y,” but “life minus Y.” (If I recall correctly, this was an argument in Schumacher’s Guide For the Perplexed.) ...” ~ Robert W.Godwin
Drinking from God’s Firehose
http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/search?q=Drinking+from+God%27s+Firehose
Robert W.Godwin [aka Gagdad Bob] , Ph.D is a clinical psychologist whose interdisciplinary work has focused on the relationship between contemporary psychoanalysis, chaos theory, and quantum physics. bttt