> doing more than just preserving ourselves; we're also allowing those
> life-forms to have a future, to evolve into other, perhaps more
> interesting species. -- Dennis
>
> That eat us for breakfast.
They already do (just ask anyone attacked by a bear). But seriously, if a bunch of relatively unpromising hairless anthropoids grew a brain 500,000 years ago and developed Civilization (whatever that means), why not the octopi or whales?
Of course, whenever I look at the life-forms inhabiting the US Congress, it occurs to me that devolution may yet wipe out the net gains of evolution.
-- Dennis