From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 16 14:38:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF88E37B41B for ; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:38:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from dialup-209.245.137.44.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.245.137.44] helo=blossom.cjclark.org) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 164rd1-00024b-00; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:38:32 -0800 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.3) id fAGMbsq54055; Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:37:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 14:37:54 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Anton Berezin Cc: Terry Lambert , Rick Hamell , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More Microsoft news... Message-ID: <20011116143754.D50971@blossom.cjclark.org> Reply-To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu References: <3BF420DB.3CACB2C6@mindspring.com> <20011116175236.A94582@heechee.tobez.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011116175236.A94582@heechee.tobez.org>; from tobez@tobez.org on Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 05:52:36PM +0100 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 05:52:36PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote: > On Thu, Nov 15, 2001 at 12:08:59PM -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > Why does everyone believe that there is an evolutionary path between > > any two species, and that revolutionary change can always be built > > slowly with evolutionary "baby steps"? That's like claiming that if > > you mofy birds slowly enough, you will evntually get rabbits. > > Well, that's easy. You can always go from the first one backwards to ^^^^^^^^^ > the common ancestor and then follow the natural path to the other one. It does not necessarily work in reverse. I think you misunderstand the anaology. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message