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Politics : Should God be replaced?
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (23672)5/24/2006 8:16:32 AM
From: LLCF  Read Replies (1) of 28931
 
<It is true that those who survive are those represented in the next generation, but that was a side effect of the first life, not a goal of it. >

I mis spoke if I said the 'goal' was to be represented in the next generation... Darwinism, I think, assumes there 'survival of the fittest'... which seems to imply some 'force' or 'need' to survive. Of course these would simply be descriptions made up by aware observers LOOKING for meaning.

<but it was not a chosen goal. It just turned out to be a necessary requirement.>

Not 'chosen' by the 'individuals' involved you mean, no... it is an age old question as to whether there is something more... (below)

<There are plenty of other traits that make survival more likely, but to call them a goal implies forethought in their emergence.>

That would bring us to the thread header....and the age old search for meaning and all that... What is that (why traits?) then? Is there a God? An "intelligent design"? Why are things the way they are?

Further, I would point out that it might be an "innate quality" of the universe... as you say "just turned out that way"... but that doesn't preclude a conscious 'design', or simply 'consciousness':

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OTOH perhaps a 'universal will to survive' simply seems special to humans LOOKING for meaning. To the material reductionist it's all just random stuff...

DAK
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