Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm to bees

Re:Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm... by unityByFreedom on Sunday July 02, 2017 @06:31PM (#14684681)

Darwin might disagree.

Perhaps you can say evolution is accidental, without intention. Quite a happy accident in my opinion.

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Re:Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm... by IanCal on Monday July 03, 2017 @02:23AM (#14686232)

Evolution does not necessarily move towards optimal systems, by any definition. It may find local optima, but the process has no guarantees it's moving towards a global optimum.

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Re:Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm... by splawn on Monday July 03, 2017 @10:29AM (#14688472)

I am guessing your downvoters have never heard of mass extinction events.

EDIT: Here.... let me google up an example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxygenation_Event

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Re:Largest-ever study of controversial pesticides finds harm... by Eerie on Monday July 03, 2017 @01:03AM (#14685950)

A billion years of living things eating each other. Quite happy, indeed.

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