Re: Asian natural disaster or evolution in action?

From: anonymous person (at_at_dot.com)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:12:50 -0600

"-M" <trevor.mcnicol@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1104332859.491369.91450@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
> Your post shows an obvious lack of intelligence. You seem to have no
> understanding of what evolution is. If you did you would know that
> there is no correlation between a natural disaster and a tidal wave,
> with the exception that perhaps those that survived were genetically
> stronger swimmers. Natural selection has no correlation with
> controlling populations or ridding the world of poverty.Natural
> selection is genetic mistakes that are discarded 99.9% of the time and
> perhaps passed on if they provide some advantage.
>
> And to answer your question. Your lack of understanding suggest you are
> posting from the US, perhaps bible belt area.

I think what he was trying to get at is why, if you think we and all of this
is just some random cosmic happenstance, do you consider the tsunami to be a
disaster?

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