Re: OT: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Paul Johnson wrote:
> More seriously, though, it does demonstrate that mass die-offs or 
> survival aren't necessarily the products of genetics, which is what 
> the point to the analogy was.

_Thank you!_

That's very close to what I was trying to say, only in just the reverse: 
genetic-change is not the product of mass die-offs or survival.

Genetic change may happen, but it's not caused (or guaranteed, or even 
prompted to go in a positive or a negative direction) by extinction 
events. The extinction of one sub-group does not automatically add 
improvement to the surviving group.

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Kent