From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Aug 30 21: 4:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3EEF37B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 21:04:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net (swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A7143E6E for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 21:04:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0403.cvx21-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.193.148] helo=mindspring.com) by swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17kzV9-0002vg-00; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 21:04:47 -0700 Message-ID: <3D704024.55E7F1F7@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 21:03:48 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lawrence Sica Cc: Dave Hayes , chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why did evolution fail? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Lawrence Sica wrote: > > Environmental issues are not useful examples in this context, > > whereas genetic ones are. 8-). > > If everything is relative then its perfectly valid. Seriously environment > influences genetics though. We evolve to suit our environment. > > ;) Changes wrought by environmental conditions are not inheritable, or we would have a lot of children and grandchildren of shop teachers with less than the usual number of fingers. 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message