(October 10, 2017 at 9:45 pm)Huggy74 Wrote:(October 10, 2017 at 9:24 pm)Nay_Sayer Wrote: Doesn't matter if they do.
Your implication is that the ecosystem is the grand purpose, Which is like saying the grand purpose of water is to be in the exact shape of the hole it's in.
Dumb analogy, seeing how water isn't classified as a system...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System
Quote:A system is a regularly interacting or interdependent group of items forming a unified whole. Every system is delineated by its spatial and temporal boundaries, surrounded and influenced by its environment, described by its structure and purpose and expressed in its functioning.
What is your point? There are 4 Fs to nature -- feeding, fleeing, fighting and reproduction. If you are good at one or more of those (especially, the last one, which, in the natural world, often means the first 3), you pass your genes down. If not, on well....