(May 28, 2022 at 8:56 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: No, I don’t see anything g weird about biological evolution only applying to life. It’s a very specific theory. Why and how would mountains evolve, for example, by descent with modification through genetic means…and then winnowed by variable survival rates?
I also dont see anything odd about the existence of facts. If states of affairs exist and can be accurately described…there are facts. If, in short, anything at all is knowable, then there are facts. Do you know your own name? Is it somehow funny or odd that you do?
Sorry, let me be more clear if I have not already...You are describing evolution as a process, but what I am arguing is that evolution precedes life itself as a possibility and thus possibility is a "power" if you will, a force that exists. I even likened it to life itself, in that life is a possibility, and might not life then be a force? Some people do posit that there exists a life force. This force is a possibility that precedes the actualization of life. Even quantum mechanics utilizes the power of possibility.
