Refering to page 24 of the March 1 issue, I fail to grasp the humor of Mr. Prothero when he says "......higher organisms such as birds and mammals to humans (and ultimately to God)". Mr. Darwin certainly did not have the benefit of observing the process of evolution we have done in our lives. Think about the evolution from hand-carts to intelligent, talking cars and auto-pilot aeroplanes or from the abacus to the super-computer. I call it the evolution of inorganic life on earth and am proud of having participatd in it. Unfortunately, I know very little about biology or geology, but I am inclined to think that organic evolution would also have taken place in a similar manner.
In the next issue there is going to be an article on "dark matter" that comprises 96 percent of what exists in the universe. May be then I would be able to conjecture whether a life form could have evolved there or that is just another third world.
