(June 13, 2015 at 9:56 am)Yoplait Wrote: evolution is the designer, it's goal is to create the strongest organism it can. natural selection works in hand and weeds out the weak organisms...the slowest deer die, the people with depression kill themselves, and stupid people die doing stupid things.If we anthropomorphize evolution to "have a goal" then that goal would be better described as creating the organism best able to survive and reproduce in its particular environment. "Fittest" is therefore a more accurate descriptor than "strongest." Because the earth itself changes over time, the environment 'evolves' to benefit different life forms, and only those whose evolutionary adaptations provide an advantage will survive. The rest, regardless of how strong they are or how fit they were for the old environment, will likely die off.
The gods of this world are whatever we choose them to be on both an individual and societal level. And as a society and as individuals, we are polytheistic in the extreme. We idolize ourselves, our country, our neighborhood, our friends, our jobs, our athletes, our sports teams, our politicians, our writers and artists and actors and musicians and, occasionally, the mythical creatures we created for no other reason than to have something to idolize when those other gods were in short supply.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
