[MD] Distinguishing Levels (Individual level)

[Platt Holden]

SA:       What is evolution to you, if not a change in
> species, as in the mosquito for one?  Do you know what
> evolution means, just wondering, I would like to hear
> your definition?

Evolution occurs when a fish becomes a crocodile, a crocodile becomes a 
snake, a snake becomes a gopher, a gopher becomes a horse, a horse 
becomes a hippo,  etc. etc. (Not necessarily in that order)  Minor 
changes in the beak of a bird or the specks on a mosquito's wings do 
not make for evolution in my book.. Inability of a second generation to 
breed with a previous one takes evolution nowhere. Evolution stops at 
life forms like the poor  jackass. 

> Dinosaurs don't exist now, but they
> did.  Homo erectus or habilis existed, but doesn't
> now.  Whales used to walk on land, but they don't now.
>  If you understand the workings of evolution,
> obviously the static patterns of biology are not going
> to change quickly.  I don't go in my door and see a
> hemlock tree, and the next day it flies over my house
> singing a song.  How do you explain all these bones of
> hominoids and other fossils that are similar to
> existing or other previous creatures that no longer
> exist?  How do you explain mosquito's changing species
> on record?  What is your theory Platt? 
 
Evolution has occurred by significant changes of forms. Such forms have 
become extinct for any number of reasons, leaving traces of their 
former existence behind. Evolution theory calls for millions of tiny 
intermediate steps to take place before a new form evolves. Problem is, 
the fossil record doesn't show millions of tiny intermediate steps 
culminating in a new form. Rather it shows big jumps.   

My theory is that the life force (DQ) works to change forms for the 
better. When it runs up against a catastrophe, like the extinction of 
the dinosaurs, it works hard to avoid such catastrophes in the future. 
Thus, it switched from making bigger and bigger reptiles to creating 
bigger and bigger brains, big enough not only to deflect a meteor like 
the one that extinguished the dinosaurs, but to eventually leave this 
planet and continue life elsewhere in the universe before the sun 
expands and burns out all life here a few billion years from now.

But, I could be wrong. It's just a theory. But so is evolution and the 
MOQ. :-)

Thanks for asking.

Platt