12-04-2013, 04:42 AM
"evolution works best when the adaptation occurs at a "natural" pace in order to level the playing field"
Apart from the serious hubris of claiming knowledge of how "evolution works best" (whew!) there is no "natural" pace of evolution. How could there be just one pace over a 3+billion year process here on earth? For instance, during the Cambrian Explosion (over 500 million years ago) the number of phyla increased at much faster rate than later.
As far as "Splicing disparate species together" that goes on all the time without any human intervention. We just don't notice. After all, every one of our human cells (as well as all higher life forms) contains mitochondria, once upon a time an entirely separate organism that still has its own chromosomes.
Apart from the serious hubris of claiming knowledge of how "evolution works best" (whew!) there is no "natural" pace of evolution. How could there be just one pace over a 3+billion year process here on earth? For instance, during the Cambrian Explosion (over 500 million years ago) the number of phyla increased at much faster rate than later.
As far as "Splicing disparate species together" that goes on all the time without any human intervention. We just don't notice. After all, every one of our human cells (as well as all higher life forms) contains mitochondria, once upon a time an entirely separate organism that still has its own chromosomes.