Re: Asian natural disaster or evolution in action?

From: Elmer Bataitis (nylicens_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/29/04 

Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:19:06 GMT

"anonymous person" <at@dot.com> wrote in message news:fLednZqplPqUTE_cRVn-qg@comcast.com...
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> "Elmer Bataitis" <nylicens@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:QdAAd.1336$ur4.244@news01.roc.ny...
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> > "anonymous person" <at@dot.com> wrote in message
> > news:OZCdnYjjiPPuVE_cRVn-sw@comcast.com...
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> >> "-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?
> >
> > I think what he was trying to get at is why, if you think we and all of
> > this is just something
> > intended by God, do you consider the tsunami to be a disaster?
>
> Interesting. You are the second person to turn the question around and not
> address it.

So what? The question was ill formed. All the turn around did was to attempt to illustrate that
point.

It's not random, but had a cause. Hawaii has warning bouys for just such purposes. California has
earthquake building codes for a reason. These places had nothing like that. Where did the disaster
come from? California has earthquakes and Hawaii has Tsunamis. The earth's tectonic plates are in
constant motion. Stresses build up and then get released. All this is perfectly normal, even if
difficult to predict exactly. The disaster part comes mostly from human ignorance and failures. Not
from God or nature.

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