RE: The absurd need for logical proofs for God
December 3, 2020 at 12:23 am
(This post was last modified: December 3, 2020 at 12:57 am by Apollo.)
I am afraid there is a bit of anthropomorphism goes on when we talk about evolution by natural selection as if “natural selection “ has sort of mind or intent or purpose—“purpose “ in itself is a post-hoc concept to explain things by taking a point of view standing in the past.
Nature selects not because it has some kinda mind, it’s just that gene that offer some benefits in ability to survive (through sex, adaptations etc) are likely to be passed on to next generation, where if they continue to be useful, they’ll actively continue to be passed on but if due to changes in environment their use is muted the they become useless, still passed on but over a period of time may become dead genes that our body may still carry but they don’t get expressed anymore. Our body is graveyard of many such genes.
Nature selects not because it has some kinda mind, it’s just that gene that offer some benefits in ability to survive (through sex, adaptations etc) are likely to be passed on to next generation, where if they continue to be useful, they’ll actively continue to be passed on but if due to changes in environment their use is muted the they become useless, still passed on but over a period of time may become dead genes that our body may still carry but they don’t get expressed anymore. Our body is graveyard of many such genes.