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27 Jan 2011, 3:33 am

The assumptions behind that question are too linear to be taken seriously.



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27 Jan 2011, 3:50 am

Two chicken-like lizards came first, then the egg, then the chicken.


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27 Jan 2011, 9:46 pm

techstepgenr8tion wrote:
Two chicken-like lizards came first, then the egg, then the chicken.


There'd be intermediates, though, that aren't quite lizard and aren't quite chicken, so it shows how there's no real, concrete answer for it. Its like asking, what came first "creation or destruction". I think creation and destruction are just inherent patterns in the fabric of reality though. To have creation, you have to have destruction of a previous order, and to have destruction, you have to create a new order.



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27 Jan 2011, 10:26 pm

JNathanK wrote:
There'd be intermediates, though, that aren't quite lizard and aren't quite chicken, so it shows how there's no real, concrete answer for it. Its like asking, what came first "creation or destruction". I think creation and destruction are just inherent patterns in the fabric of reality though. To have creation, you have to have destruction of a previous order, and to have destruction, you have to create a new order.

Joseph Schumpeter coined a phrase on this.


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