Re: A FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE


"wblakesx" <wblakesx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the open mind Tony. I'll delve abit more into this if it
> sems to stir questions or controversy and when I'm feeling a bit
> better.
> Anyone who wants to dig in both feet to stand against my aside should
> pay closer attention to my origional statement. " I like to say the
> teat is the greatest of all inventions, since it has
> so much to do with...".

Please do go on, Blake.

In order that we might know what you would share with us, you will want to
acquaint us with a clear and unambiguous meaning of 'invention' as pertains
to the teat's being one. Also, in your desire for us to understand how and
why it is the 'greatest,' you will want to tell us clearly what criteria you
are applying to the determination of the teat as taking the top prize, based
upon them.

It will be interesting for us to learn how the teat edged out cosmic
inflation in importance, or the cooking of most of the elements of the
periodic table in stars -- elements without which life, as we know it, could
not exist. How the teat relegates that process, and its history in the
cosmos, to second place or lower... that would be quite a revelation.

Or... there are many points that had to be passed through in the evolution
of Sol's (our sun's) solar system which it would be interesting to see how
you categorize them as less 'great' than the teat. If not for Jupiter's
placement in our solar system, where it slingshots comets in such a way as
to cause many of them to miss collision with Earth. If not for our moon,
Earth would have zones that are forever perma-frosted, and zones that are
perpetual desert. The lesser importance of that... than the teat... yes,
that would be intriguing.

But, perhaps when you speak of the teat's being the 'greatest invention' you
are talking about the 'greatness' of the teat only with respect to its place
among living things. You did not say that, but maybe that is what you
meant.

How is it that you arrived at the importance of the teat as being even more
'great' than the origin of life itself? And, subsequent to that origin, the
first exterior membrane, without which it is hard to imagine a thing as
being 'alive'. The teat is more important than that membrane? That's
pretty hard to conceive of. Without it, the first living thing would have
been little more than a heterogeneous conglomeration of miscellaneous
paraphernalia splorked on a rock, perhaps, or a momentary concentration of
some molecules at some tiny location, as a part of sea water. Yes, it would
seem that the first membrane might have been pretty important.

Or, perhaps your comment was intended to refer only to the evolutionary
progression beginning immediately after the first living creature was in
place, and from thence along the germ line that led specifically to humans,
as they are today. At some point in that line of evolving complexity there
had to be some circulation of fluids in a membrane, and that had to have led
up to the sophisticated circulatory system of humans and the liquid
composition we call blood. How does the teat get a higher place in the
'greatness' of things than the origin of blood?

Sorry, did not mean to get carried away, but if you truly are desirous of
explaining in a scientific way how the teat is the 'greatest invention'
ever, you certainly have your work cut out.

But, if you can pull together all that must be pulled together to make it
clear, and rule out all the things that would compete with the validity of
your assertion (once a clear and unambiguous meaning has been given to the
assertion), by all means lay it on us. Please don't feel that any crude
hold back. No feet are planted to discourage you by this unintelligent.

Go for it.

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