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Random evolution
October 31, 2017 at 3:21 pm (This post was last modified: October 31, 2017 at 3:24 pm by purplepurpose.)
How random and mindless evolution processes create such complex human minds and bodies?
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RE: Random evolution
October 31, 2017 at 3:23 pm
Evolution is not wholly random . Read a science book . Please fix the wording of your last sentence .
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RE: Random evolution
October 31, 2017 at 3:25 pm (This post was last modified: October 31, 2017 at 3:25 pm by Mister Agenda.)
The random parts of evolution (inheritable variability) are filtered through natural selection (non-random) which filters out organisms poorly adapted to their reproductive environment.

Organisms that don't have a 'drive to survive' are poorly adapted for most reproductive environments that involve being able to move.
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RE: Random evolution
October 31, 2017 at 3:27 pm
Mutations etc are largely random, but the selection pressures that guide them along evolutionary pathways are not.
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RE: Random evolution
October 31, 2017 at 3:29 pm
(October 31, 2017 at 3:23 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: Please fix the wording of your last sentence .

Yeah; I thought it was a subheading with a misplaced question mark and missing article.
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RE: Random evolution
October 31, 2017 at 3:29 pm
(October 31, 2017 at 3:25 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: The random parts of evolution (inheritable variability) are filtered through natural selection (non-random) which filters out organisms poorly adapted to their reproductive environment.

Organisms that don't have a 'drive to survive' are poorly adapted for most reproductive environments that involve being able to move.

Why organisms are hardwired for survival at all?
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RE: Random evolution
October 31, 2017 at 3:30 pm
Because if they weren't they'd die?
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RE: Random evolution
October 31, 2017 at 3:32 pm
(October 31, 2017 at 3:29 pm)purplepurpose Wrote:
(October 31, 2017 at 3:25 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: The random parts of evolution (inheritable variability) are filtered through natural selection (non-random) which filters out organisms poorly adapted to their reproductive environment.

Organisms that don't have a 'drive to survive' are poorly adapted for most reproductive environments that involve being able to move.

Why organisms are hardwired for survival at all?

Because organisms that don't survive...don't survive.
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RE: Random evolution
October 31, 2017 at 3:49 pm (This post was last modified: October 31, 2017 at 3:57 pm by purplepurpose.)
(October 31, 2017 at 3:32 pm)FatAndFaithless Wrote:
(October 31, 2017 at 3:29 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: Why organisms are hardwired for survival at all?

Because organisms that don't survive...don't survive.

I meant to say that even on surface evolution is creepy. Mechanical and mindless evolution created hardwiring for survival at first and then people who wish to live eternally.
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RE: Random evolution
October 31, 2017 at 4:09 pm (This post was last modified: October 31, 2017 at 4:09 pm by Cyberman.)
It's no more creepy than gravity. A mechanical and mindless force that we can't see permeating the Universe, keeping whole stars, planets and galaxies from flying apart, and only waiting for one slip of the foot on a high ledge to hurl us to a sticky, messy death?
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