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

To: LLCF who wrote (23673)	5/24/2006 10:02:41 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Darwinism, I think, assumes there 'survival of the fittest'... which seems to imply some 'force' or 'need' to survive. First of all, the phrase 'survival of the fittest' is an idea of Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin. Spenser promoted the idea that evolution must lead to progress, while Darwin only stated that evolution led to change. Certainly it seems that the changes in lifeforms have led to more complexity and interdependance, and if that is how you define progress ... I think it's more like an enclosed maze in a box. You can dump marbles in at one end and keep shaking it and some will come out the other end. That does not mean that the marbles learned the maze, or had a goal to leave the maze, only that leaving the maze was a selection point. Of course when a lifeform dies it is a lot more final selection point, but that is just a matter of degree and not of form. TP