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Originally posted by: StarboyQuote
If you assume the atom as the starting point and look at the present, then biology must be increasing in order. But if you look at things like rate of extinction compared to rate of species generation...or increasing cancer rates (that is, the harmful mutation of DNA)...and trace that line all the way back to origin, it points to a MORE complex biological history rather than a less complex biological history.
Forgive me i dont understand your logic here. What points to a more complex biological history?
I don't have a hard and fast point, nothing scientific, just an observation. Sometimes as you look around it seems that life in general is degrading rather than evolving. It seems like more stuff is dying out than is developing. It seems like the human genome is getting more disease prone and more unstable rather than evolving to a higher state. There are of course lots of different possible reasons and a myriad of competing factors in that, so it's not an argument. Just food for thought.
ah i understand what your saying. your observation appears to be true if you look at things in the short term and overall. for example when things died they are then consumed by other life that is what decay is. Now as this other life is created, it in-it-self becames more complex be reproducing multiplying and mutating. these small life forms are then consumed by some larger form of life an things dieing just feed the entire circle of life. when something dies the circle will multiply and thus mutate becoming more complex.
you were saying that that the human genome is become more disease prone, this is not true we are jsut noticing all the different viruses and bacteria which do us harm.
those were just explinations for the specific examples you gave. but but overall i understand what your saying.