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*Moderator mode /on*

Please, easy with words like STFU. Thank you.

*Moderator mode /off*

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BINGO

you can wiki that too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergy...ene_Hypothesis

Imagine a world where organisms adapt to threats through natural selection. Oh wait that's reality.

Struggle is nature's way of strengthening organisms. Remove the communicated diseases and our immune systems go to sh*t.

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Natural selection only works on the population level; it does NOT apply to individual organisms, not in the way you're thinking.

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Bingo my ***. One to Three million deaths is not natures struggle Yimboli. It's needless death.

Humans have gone beyond adapting through natural selection by use of technology. We have vaccines now. Natural selection has nothing to do with it. If we had a vaccine for malaria it'd be used, but we dont yet. Besides, there is little adapting to malaria unless you are adapting through a real estate agent that knows a good place away from ponds and the coast.

So your argument is crap.

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Our way of adapting is different from most creatures. Most creatures create new defenses to protect against diseases and predators. We? We build things to blow predators up, and create vaccines to make us immune.

Just that our method tends to not require as much breeding. Thus letting us expand, increase the gene pool, and generally prosper by letting our old and weak people who would otherwise die out, protect us.

Us avoiding deadly diseases, parasites, and generally creating a cleaner world for ourselves is what keeps society healthy as a whole for us.

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Most technology is not devoted to blowing up predators, but rather other humans. But then again, humans ARE predators after all... But technology as an alternative to natural selection seems a bit of a stretch. Natural selection is a neccessary method of ensuring the survival of the species. Only the earliest forms of technology were developed for such purposes. Humans have long since surpassed the point where the survival of our species was threatened.

So if you consider technology to be the human alternative to evolution, then we truly are something unique. We do not evolve to survive, we evolve to dominate our universe.

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Please tone it down a little, Dizzy.

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Alright, Fryon. I'm just a little passionate about it and am intending to raise the heat up a bit, but no one please mistake that for me insulting or attacking anyone cuz I'm not. Everyone has a valuable opinion.

And now back to nuking the planet...

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I suspect he was talking about certain word choices... passion about a topic is certainly not a bad thing, indeed the opposite is the case in my opinion...

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An attack was precisely your intention in your last post. I don't hold grudges though, everyone gets worked up about something. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif I certainly didn't mean to hit your string.