The whole thought of applying an adjective like "advanced" to a species strikes me as odd. I can talk about advanced refrigerators since newer refrigerators typically perform the tasks I want from a refrigerator better. But advanced species? About the only thing operating in design mode there is DNA and I imagine from a DNA standpoint the common cold is one of the most advanced species; it has a remarkable ability to survive and reproduce. Perhaps God could tell us what counts as advanced but I doubt He'd make much of a distinction between a sea cucumber and a chordate jellyfish. —Steven Palmer Peterson Call me a throwback, but I think that humans are more advanced than tunicates. Maybe from God's point of view, we're bascially the same, but I see things from the human point of view. —JoT |
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