Richard Dawkin's big blunder

[Mudhammam]

Now I know for a fact that evolutionary systems can come into existence when the selection criterion is contrived. This is easily demonstrable. What I am asking you to do is demonstrate that evolutionary systems can come into existence when the selection criterion isn't contrived. Everytime I ask that from this forum....the result is a sound of crickets chirping.

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No, they weren't contrived. They just existed. It was either life existed or it didn't. It didn't matter. Only because some life forms were better at prolonging their existence to the point of self-replication did those traits come to dominate. As competition increased, it created contrivance, your fitness paradigm, which at first meant nothing to the original self-replicators.

You might say in some sense the Universe is very much alive. But it is not conscious apart from conscious observers such as yourself. Not any more than your heart is conscious or your blood vessels are conscious.