In a message dated 5/20/99 9:29:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:

<< But you're forgetting that until man selectively bred it all the seeds
 spontaneously fell off at the same time, when they were ripe. And with
 their points they stuck into the ground.  >>

 Things just do not happen like that: All at once? All pointed and stuck in
the ground? All ripe? There are upper and lower normal limits and there are
extremes. If the wind blows some of the points will not land appropriately; a
little more sun or shade and the ripening rate is altered. It isn't necessary
to postulate all of the seeds falling at once or the like for them to have
been part of the diet.