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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: cosmicforce who wrote (3043)	11/1/2000 9:42:02 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

The only thing evolution cares about is reproduction. If we create a niche, it will be filled. That is all. I wasn't sure if it did care :). I can't say if I am relieved or dismayed! So who/what is evolution? Is it a goal, a desire, a force? Is it you? Is it me? Is it a singular quality or attribute bundled into the code of every living cell, and was it always part of the package? Why does it care about reproduction, and how do you know that? Before any resistance to life or existence was experienced by the first life forms, where did their code or their desire to reproduce come from? Did the desire to reproduce spring into existence at the same moment as the desire to exist? WHY?? Why should reproduction be the rage? Why should anything want to reproduce? Why shouldn't something try to destroy itself instead, especially if it experiences something unpleasant--say the sunshine or water or light?? I don't think reproduction is what evolution cares about. I think it is preservation of its genetic code. A small point. But the question is still: Why? When I say "why", I mean: What is the explanation? How have your tires been lately? I think you are the one flattening them. :) I think ideas tend to create themselves in actuality!

To: cosmicforce who wrote (3043)	11/1/2000 10:13:35 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

What has evolved in the human spirit or consciousness that now moves us to preserve our weakest members? >>Evolution doesn't care what our opinion is about evolution. The term "fit" can never be applied contemporaneously (at least without appearing silly).>> I am assuming that our minds still act as agents to the cell, so I still ask why we go against the survival of our own prodigy by assisting the incapable to survive and breed? Clearly we identify and empathize with others...and with other life forms. Apparently, my opinion IS evolution, or, at least, acts in the behest of evolution--so, why do I want others to survive? Why do I abhor death in others? Do I project onto everybody? I hope not.