(June 7, 2022 at 9:24 am)chiknsld Wrote: Evolution must have been there from the very beginning since it is already guaranteed from the outset of the universe being in existence. Thus, evolution is some sort of eternal power.
Do you believe that everything that currently exists "existed" at the beginning of time? That makes no sense. If I say that the game of baseball was inevitable, does that mean baseball is some sort of eternal power?
First, there is no fatalism. Complicated processes emerge - they aren't pre-existant. The precursor to life was some sort of organic replicating molecule, and it would emerge from random processes in a environment that allowed it to exist. With replication, environmental pressure, and random mutation, we get the process of evolution.
There are all sorts of emergent processes. Most of the "laws" of the universe, like thermodynamics, actually emerge from the interaction of simpler principles. A tornado is an emergent process. Chaos is an emergent process. I would postulate consciousness as an emergent process.
