RE: Confronting Friends and Family
November 5, 2012 at 8:05 am
(This post was last modified: November 5, 2012 at 8:16 am by Kirbmarc.)
Quote:You seem to think they came to this behaviour through "trial and error", that's nonsensical.
Why, exactly? The penguins in the communities where individuals fought for the warm places died. The penguins in the communities where individuals rotate survived. How is this nonsensical?
Quote:Well that's incorrect, because Evolution isn't concerned with individuals!
Individuals are the core of the theory of evolution. The transmission of ereditary characters depends on individuals reproducing or not.
Quote:Actually, I'm certain that it exists, I just don't know what it is. But, that said, I know what it does. It develops life and populations, and behaviours.
There's no need for a mysterious overarching law to develop life, populations and behaviors. Natural selection and the transmission of ereditary characters explain their development in a coherent, simple way.
Quote:Life isn't "made for the universe", you can't just take an arbitrary universe with arbitrary laws and expect life designed for that universe to suddenly pop up.. and even if it does, it would probably die again just as quickly.
You're thinking about what would happen to carbon-based "life" in a different universe. But another kind of "life" (whatever it is: life is a very ill-defined concept: are virus alive? and if so, why aren't crystals alive?) might as well develop. Life is "made for the universe" in that it is made according to the rules of that specific universe.
