From: brent.allsop@comcast.net
Date: Mon Jul 14 2003 - 15:49:34 MDT
Anders,
Very good questions!
To take this to the next level will our spreading "garden" consist of
evolution - or more precisely death? Will there be lions that eat lambs and so
on? Or will everything "natural" or "primitive" be "uplifted" and will
progress be made, from then on, by better intelligent and intentional methods
than "survival of the fittest"?
I like to hope that 1000 years from now there will be beautiful gardens in
which death (including survival of the fittest) will no longer exist. But I
know that many people alive today would want "nature" and "evolution",
including survival of the fittest to survive. Because of these desires by some
will there be places in the universe where "nature", "survival of the fittest",
places where lions consume lambs. and so on continue to exist? Or will
rationality win out and will death of all kinds be completely overcome in all
places?
Brent Allsop
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