Confronting Friends and Family

[Aractus]

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?

Because different species compete against each other in nature, they don't compete against themselves.

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.

Right, well with that attitude we never would have found out what a fractal is even though we'd been looking at them and calling them "organic shapes" for eons.

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.

You still need a chemical as versatile as Carbon. And carbon is incredibly versatile. As for viruses and crystals, crystals are non-organic, and viruses are simply something that replicates using organic matter - that is, they start from a life form and do something contrary to the interests of the life form.