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You're right again, Rick, the tree of knowledge was verboten and got Adam and Eve plus all the rest of us in a whole lot of trouble. Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick McGirr" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2005 9:08 AM Subject: Re: Scientific Method etc/Scott > Perhaps PD is God's punishment for intelligent people wanting to know too > much, for not being trusting enough. Reagan said there's nothing wrong > with a little good, old-fashioned greed. But to be greedy for knowledge > and understanding is unacceptable to God? > > Mama, Ah don undrstaiand. If Gawd wonts Daidy to bue reech with ol (oil) > muney, wha duz 'e wont ma pore haid ta bue so impty? > > Jes eat yer griots, chile. > > Enjoy Fall! > Rick McGirr > Email: [log in to unmask] > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "rayilynlee" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 11:49 PM > Subject: Re: Scientific Method etc/Scott > > >> Scott, your knowledge and posts are much appreciated by me. Even though >> I'm >> old I still like to learn. We seem to have lots of very smart, well >> educated people on this list and I wonder if there is any correlation >> with >> Parkinson's. >> Ray, fellow Arizonan >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Scott E. Antes" <[log in to unmask]> >> To: <[log in to unmask]> >> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 6:33 PM >> Subject: Re: Scientific Method etc >> >> >>> Apologies if someone has already answered this. "Survival of the >>> fittest," in >>> the evolutionary sense, refers to one thing only, and that is the >>> relative >>> success of an organism to pass on its genes to future generations. In >>> other >>> words, if you're an organism that produces offspring who produce >>> offspring >>> who >>> produce offspring, etc., etc., you're a fit organism. Some organisms >>> are >>> much >>> more fit than others. Bacteria, for example, are about the fittest >>> organisms >>> on the planet, having passed on their genetic material for some 3.8 >>> billion >>> years. Most insects also are very fit. When confronted with climate >>> and >>> habitat change, small mammals proved to be more fit than gigantic >>> dinosaurs, >>> and so on. Scott Antes >>> >>>>----- Original Message ----- >>>>From: "Joe Ryan" <[log in to unmask]> >>>>To: <[log in to unmask]> >>>>Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2005 10:29 PM >>>>Subject: Scientific Method etc >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi Mary Ann >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> I don't know what to think about the term "survival of the fittest". >>>>> My >>>>> first impression was like yours, that it had to do with strength, but >>>>> then >>>>> what about the survival of the swiftest or smartest or smallest or >>>>> hundreds of other 'survival mechanisms"? Does it mean those who fit >>>>> their >>>>> particular environment the best survive the best? >>> >>> Scott E. Antes >>> Department of Anthropology >>> Northern Arizona University >>> Flagstaff, AZ 86011-5200 >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: >>> mailto:[log in to unmask] >>> In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: >> mailto:[log in to unmask] >> In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn