Comments on: Another Evolution question http://steve-brown.id.au/christianity/another-evolution-question.html Bizarre and occasionally useful thoughts Fri, 27 Apr 2012 09:53:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Jan http://steve-brown.id.au/christianity/another-evolution-question.html/comment-page-1#comment-1078 Jan Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:18:44 +0000 http://steve-brown.id.au/?p=197#comment-1078 The answer to your question is that we will see huge insects one day. Actually we probably will not see them as as we will have died out from some cataclysmic disaster. As a result there will be an empty niche waiting to be filled by some entrepreneurial new species. With all the extra space around the new species will finally have a chance to take off, but to start with it will be a bit substandard in its ability to survive in it's wide open new space. Once the species kicks off it will evolve into more suitable species which will thrive. The answer to why they don't fill the gap that we occupy yet is that we are here eating all the stuff and a slightly larger insect is not yet good enough to beat us mammals and fish and birds. As soon as a big ugly insect mutates, it is too cumbersome and not yet effective enough to take our place. It could happen without a cataclysm of dare I say it "Biblical proportions", but it is much easier for a new and slightly weird mutated creation to get the chance to really evolve fast when there is plenty of space and food. May I recommend you start with the Greatest Show on Earth, then head to the selfish gene. Please read a whole book before giving up and burning it on a pyre of other educational non-fiction books. When you really get into it then you can take the time to read the Ancestors Tale, perhaps his most interesting, but possible a little heavy to start with. Don't start with the God delusion, it is clear that you will only get upset. I hope you don't take any of these comments as offensive, and I am more than happy enough to help your thoughts on this issue evolve to understand, but not necessarily agree with, the general direction that the best minds have been building on over the last hundred years or so. The answer to your question is that we will see huge insects one day. Actually we probably will not see them as as we will have died out from some cataclysmic disaster. As a result there will be an empty niche waiting to be filled by some entrepreneurial new species. With all the extra space around the new species will finally have a chance to take off, but to start with it will be a bit substandard in its ability to survive in it’s wide open new space. Once the species kicks off it will evolve into more suitable species which will thrive. The answer to why they don’t fill the gap that we occupy yet is that we are here eating all the stuff and a slightly larger insect is not yet good enough to beat us mammals and fish and birds. As soon as a big ugly insect mutates, it is too cumbersome and not yet effective enough to take our place. It could happen without a cataclysm of dare I say it “Biblical proportions”, but it is much easier for a new and slightly weird mutated creation to get the chance to really evolve fast when there is plenty of space and food. May I recommend you start with the Greatest Show on Earth, then head to the selfish gene. Please read a whole book before giving up and burning it on a pyre of other educational non-fiction books. When you really get into it then you can take the time to read the Ancestors Tale, perhaps his most interesting, but possible a little heavy to start with. Don’t start with the God delusion, it is clear that you will only get upset.

I hope you don’t take any of these comments as offensive, and I am more than happy enough to help your thoughts on this issue evolve to understand, but not necessarily agree with, the general direction that the best minds have been building on over the last hundred years or so.

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