Hammond's Law of Auxology

[Richard P. Grant]

In article <3A3E96E7.6279BD53 at mediaone.net>, George Hammond 
<ghammond at mediaone.net> wrote:

> GH:  YES.  But this is not a trivial undertaking since no
>      man can do it individually no matter how rich he is.
>      Fact is, it can only happen by raising the Standard of
>      Living of the entire world.  (i.e. what you are talking
>      about runs into centuries and millenniums of human
>      endeavour).
>        eventually however, it will happen (according to the
>      Secular Trend data), and at that point the world will have
>      arrived at the Secular Trend, S-curve, "plateau" of
>      100% growth.  And YES, every human being at that point will
>      be "God in the flesh".  BTW, this is euphemistically
>      referred to as "Kingdom Come" in Theology... our religious
>      leaders having discovered all this thousands of years before
>      science discovered the Secular Trend.

And

>since
>      minimizing the brain-growth-deficit is the
>      direct biological means of nearing oneself to God.


Evidence for this?  Why does 100% growth="god"?

R

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Richard P. Grant                                     MRC Lab of Mol Biol
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