@genkaus
You can say evolution has no goals. However, it's a process which results in adaptation, i.e. the improved ability of the species to survive in its environment. Therefore, it's fine to say improved fitness is the goal of evolution-- so long as nobody tries to equivocate that to meaning evolution has a God-given purpose or something. RAKD hasn't said anything like this.
@Rational AKD
I fully agree with this argument. I often use the example of a worm-- it cannot perceive light, and could never infer it from its other senses, like sound. So what things might exist which we are systemically unable to perceive? There may be all kinds of things happening all around us which we have no physical means to be aware of or to interface with.
However, I hope you're not introducing it as an argument from ignorance for ". . . so anything's possible, including my God."
You can say evolution has no goals. However, it's a process which results in adaptation, i.e. the improved ability of the species to survive in its environment. Therefore, it's fine to say improved fitness is the goal of evolution-- so long as nobody tries to equivocate that to meaning evolution has a God-given purpose or something. RAKD hasn't said anything like this.
@Rational AKD
I fully agree with this argument. I often use the example of a worm-- it cannot perceive light, and could never infer it from its other senses, like sound. So what things might exist which we are systemically unable to perceive? There may be all kinds of things happening all around us which we have no physical means to be aware of or to interface with.
However, I hope you're not introducing it as an argument from ignorance for ". . . so anything's possible, including my God."
