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...Only in the sense that every species is. Since evolution has no inherent or predictable direction, if you could play life's tape again from any early point, you would get a completely different result that wouldn't include human beings. In that sense, every species' appearance is not random, because after it happens it is perfectly explainable, but it's unpredictable. The reason I call humans even more of an afterthought than others is that our lineage is so young and so small. The splitting point between human ancestors and those that gave rise to chimps and gorillas...
...will never formally end as long as there are millions of them out there with lots of money. I think the important point is that with the Supreme Court victory Edwards v. Aguillard, we destroyed the strategy that has been their focal point since the 1920s, namely the attempt to force legislatively the mandated teaching of this oxymoronic creation science of theirs in the classroom...
...Hasn't human progress brought us to a point where technology might cause our own extinction...
Meeting them is a humbling experience. Mike Chou, 20, spoke little English when his family arrived in the U.S. from Taiwan in 1983. A Caltech physics major with a 4.1 grade-point average, he has already done pioneering research on solar flares. John Unger II, 21, a mechanical/ biomedical-engineering major at West Virginia University, spent the summer of 1989 in Hong Kong, helping Vietnamese refugees emigrate to the U.S. In September he leaves for India, where he will assist Mother Teresa. He plans to become a doctor and work in the Third World. Says he: "The best part about...
...come in a limitless variety. Tigers and leopards have lent their spots, the venerable house of Hermes has adapted one of its signature rope prints, and designer Betsey Johnson, always on the lookout for a laugh, has fashioned a lifelike tattoo pattern. "The '60s were an inspirational bounce-off point," she notes, "short, modern, carefree, futuristic...