Wednesday, November 16, 2005
Cats and Cans
More food for thought on why things evolve or not….
Remember the car and its seeming inability to evolve significantly? I stress the word “seeming” (read your peers’ comments attached). Well, in looking for new thinking on the subject, I ran across this quote:
“If Darwin’s theory of evolution was correct, cats would be able to operate a can opener by now.”
- Larry Wright
And why can’t they? Why do cats rely on humans to open cans and on their own abilities if cans aren’t opened? The answer is “Need”. Think on it – we have evolved cans, but cans are for human use. Worse come to worse, cats can still hunt. My sense is that if we disappeared and if all food was in cans, cats would be carrying can openers. By the way, try making the human analogy in reverse…
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