All tweaking is natural
May 20th, 2008 by lekhni
I have been spending a lot of time making little tweaks to my new blog. Not that this is anything new for me - every time I finish a blog post and hit “Publish”, I will immediately think of several tiny changes I could have made that, in my opinion, would have made the blog post somehow dramatically better.
I am sure we have all spent time formatting Word documents to get the right look, or format numbers on Excel sheets so the numbers have 2 decimal points, or that PowerPoint presentations so that text box is just the right size… I am always convinced that all those tiny changes add up to a huge amount of difference in the end.
But it struck me today - isn’t Evolution the same thing? All those random genetic mutations that somehow change dinosaurs to birds, isn’t it just Nature trying to tweak a job that is already quite finished, and ending up with a much improved (to our eyes atleast) result?
Reema 
Rajesh Kumar 
Mys Lyke Meeh 
Shrinidhi Hande 
wsw 
Amit 
km 
nits 
Billigflug 
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Meira 
purplesque 
tabula rasa 
or format numbers on Excel sheets..
The accountants at Enron will be happy to know their work was really evolution
hahah…really!
..you reckon they did it on purpose to perfect it? i always thought those were accidents!
If evolution is nature’s way of tweaking us for improvement, how come there is a George Bush way after an Abraham Lincoln? Urrrmmm… does this mean Nature too resort to “trial and error” method?
km: Ah, but those guys found evolution too slow! So they decided that creating completely new creatures was the way to go
Srivalli: You don’t agree?
A Cynic in Wonderland: No doubt, that’s exactly what we are supposed to think
Kima: For that matter, I am sure the dolphins are wondering why Man was created after them