(in a closed system)
BastetFurry wrote:We created amino-acids just with boiling mineral saturated water and a bunch of simulated thunders, and if i remember correctly, that was in ~1920.
BastetFurry wrote:What if that asteroid started that? The system is not closed.
BastetFurry wrote:Just think about it, every human generation is a tiny little bit smarter than the last one, and if that line wont stop, where will it take us?
BastetFurry wrote:And for the evolution part, i for myself think that life itself strives for a higher goal, the creation of some kind of super-being.
We are not smarter than previous generations, no matter how much we would like to believe that we are. We have a larger knowledge base from which to start than previous generations, so we do less "re-inventing the wheel" than we used to. But that's because of our technological ability to store and disseminate information, not because we're "smarter" or "better" in some way.
Pinkpuff wrote:Hi,
... it's not that natural selection has a "will" or its own "concept" of what mechanisms are "good" vs what ones are "bad". I thought it was more like, the creatures which survive long enough to reproduce will naturally pass on their genes (since they lived) and the ones that die before having a chance to reproduce won't (since they're dead).
Also, I'd like to take exception to this statement:We are not smarter than previous generations, no matter how much we would like to believe that we are. We have a larger knowledge base from which to start than previous generations, so we do less "re-inventing the wheel" than we used to. But that's because of our technological ability to store and disseminate information, not because we're "smarter" or "better" in some way.
While I think that you're right on an individual level (i.e. I don't think our biology is significantly different enough to say that we're somehow innately smarter), on a societal level, I think we've come a long way, even in the past few hundred years.
Bret wrote:BastetFurry wrote:And for the evolution part, i for myself think that life itself strives for a higher goal, the creation of some kind of super-being.
I can certainly understand why you would want to think that, since it's really the only thing that could give your life meaning without God. Unfortunately, there's absolutely no evidence to support it, and in fact the evidence suggests the exact opposite. Mankind has not changed, and cannot change, at the most fundamental level -- he is still selfish and evil at his core.
Nisse wrote:What if our evolution is controlled by other beeings, scary but perhaps true.
Like Cows on a farm.. Maybe that's why we see UFO's all over, they are watching us take baby steps
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