Why do you *not* accept evolution?

[Eran of Arcadia]

MRSA is pretty impressive if you're one of the thousands of peple who've been killed by it in recent years.

If you've been killed in recent years, nothing impresses you anymore.

 

[Phlegmak]

I have to leave to go see the Pope really soon at St. Joseph's. Anyway, my summary of my correction for Truronian is that:

1. There is no goal in evolution.
2. From 1, it's simply not possible for one species to be "less evolved" than another.

From that, maybe somebody can correct Smidlee.

 

[brennan]

...that's just so...true...and obvious...and...

 

[Aegis]

MRSA is pretty impressive if you're one of the thousands of peple who've been killed by it in recent years.

Gee, I wonder how the bacteria managed to change and adapt it's DNA makeup over time in order to survive in an increasingly hostile environment.

If only there was a word that could be used to describe that...

Oh, yeah. Evolution.

 

[Emperor Giulio]

I have to leave to go see the Pope really soon at St. Joseph's. Anyway, my summary of my correction for Truronian is that:

1. There is no goal in evolution.
2. From 1, it's simply not possible for one species to be "less evolved" than another.

From that, maybe somebody can correct Smidlee.

The goal is survival and adaptation. I kind of see the world as a super-organism, and men will one day terra-form other planets, and spread life. Sort of like Earth’s seed fertilizing barren planets and producing off-spring. I think this is the purpose of evolution.

And it is not that they are "less evolved", each species evolves to best adapt to their environment. Each species has their own unique ability.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

The goal is survival and adaptation.

Survival and propagation is the goal of species and organisms (or perhaps more accurately, of genes), but it isn't the "goal" of adaptation and evolution itself. A species that exists for a billion years without changing and ends up spread out throughout the world is pretty darned successful.

 

[Aegis]

Survival and propagation is the goal of species and organisms (or perhaps more accurately, of genes), but it isn't the "goal" of adaptation and evolution itself. A species that exists for a billion years without changing and ends up spread out throughout the world is pretty darned successful.

If you cannot adapt to environments that are increasingly more difficult to cope with, you most likely won't survive. But I do agree that the purpose of life is to survive and propagate.