Liza May wrote:
>
> Hi Carol,

Hi Liza :)

> > the purpose of
> > a deer's muscles could be said to be to get that deer away from its
> > predators as fast as possible so that it can live to have more baby
> > deer, but the deer's predators have been evolving right along side
> > them
>
> This may sound kind of religious, or a little on the philosophical side,
> but the way I think of this issue you're addressing, is that the entire
> living world is kind of like one mega-organism, with overall survival and
> evolution of itself as its goal. And so, just as the organism of the human
> body is continually striving for balance between all sorts of cooperating
> and conflicting factors, so it is with the giant "organism" of the living
> world of plants and creatures. Deer and wolves kind of balance each other
> out, in terms of the overall evolution of the "organism," just like calcium
> and oxalates, or insulin and glucagon, in the body. In fact (at the risk of
> sounding like a real space cadet) I think of the entire universe in those
> terms.

I don't think that's kooky at all!  In fact, though your slant on it
is a bit different, I think we are saying pretty much the same thing.

> So, at any given moment, some things are "sacrificed" and others are
> "enhanced," but this is all part of a gorgeously intricate, cooperative,
> and
> benign, "upward" movement towards something even better and more wonderful
> than
> currently exists.
>
> I believe this happens in a real way  --  like with squirrels and nuts, or
> deer and wolves, or birds and seeds, for instance, not just that it's a
> pretty sounding theoretical argument.
>
> Well - I just let GenieBoy take a look at this post, and he says he has NO
> IDEA what I'm trying to say here. Think I'll send it along anyway, though,
> in the
> hopes that maybe it's not quite as unintelligible if you've been following
> the recent thread.

Perhaps GenieBoy just wasn't quite awake yet. :)

Carol