O cmon Neil Armstrong's first words on the moon were " Thats one small step for man, one giant leap for... Sardarji aap yaha?"

Combating poverty is not the governments job. If the poor dont want to be poor anymore they can work harder and pull themselves out of poverty. The govt is meant to do things the private sector cannot and at present space exploration is something the govt cant do. If the money was not spent on space it could be spent on some other research but poverty alleviation or as I call it bread and circuses is a waste of money.

What is this worldview you keep mentioning? Is it a view of the world from the ISS?

But didn't you get the memo(also called the Koran) - God isnt Christian. Time to rethink your philosophy :)

But my proof of God does not exist is that the CTW exists. If there existed a god he would not allow the existence of such a flawed philosophy as CTW hence God does not exist.

So you are saying

What a load of hogwash. I think you are ready to be the next carpentor who starts a famous cult.

or not.. what the article has found is not just that organisms evolve but also some of them evolve to forms which are not going to evolve any more (think cockroaches) as they dont have the proteins which make them more suited to handle mutations in a favourable manner while other organisms do have these proteins and are better suited for further evolving. Now there may be organisms which evolve to superbly suit their niche in the ecosystem but in the process lose the capacity to further evolve. Such organisms(think dinosaurs) would rule over the more adaptable ones (think mammals) until some sudden event which requires rapid evolution comes along. In such a changed environment the old rulers could be wiped out if they couldnt eveolve fast enough and the losers may evolve to be the new rulers - The king is dead, long live the king. (Or in evolutionary terms - The dinosaurs are dead, long live the Primates). What is fun is that the scientists have found proteins involved in negative feedback of mutations and positive feedback of mutations. This means certain species could have only positive feedback control proteins which means any mutation they have go absolutely nuts as the mutations cause more mutations and so on. It would mean species which create new sub species at the drop of a hat. I am thinking tropical fish. If such control chains could be brought to humans it would speed up human evolution and differentiation which has pretty much stopped as our environment is too friendly nowadays (e.g. we dont leave the weakest to be eaten by the predator we build wheelchair ramps for them so no way are we going to evolve away from spinal bifidia). So if we want to evolve further either we go back to being animals and abandon the weak or speed up evolution by artificial means by destabilizing our DNA. This would mean knocking out some of the negative feedback control chains and adding extra positive feedback control chains. Yes these would create more kids to be born with birth defects but our society already takes good care of the handicapped but it would also lead to the birth of kids with unique abilities. So now we know how the X-Men can be created - knock out the control proteins.