Wesley R. Elsberry
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Joined: May 2002
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Heh... intelligent aliens who figure out how to manipulate bacteria, then spend three and a half billion years learning enough to make flat multi-cellular life and deploy it. Millions of years later, there's a revolt among the alien bio-engineers, who scrap the flat bioforms project in favor of a whole bunch of more-or-less wormy things with shells. Over five hundred million years later, they inexplicably concentrate on expanding encephalization quotients in an unpromising arid primate line, despite previous success in brainy cetaceans.
That doesn't look too much like the starting point of the analogy in the argument, does it?
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"You can't teach an old dogma new tricks." - Dorothy Parker
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