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gruvbin Feb 24, 2024

Everything is explained away in Evolution by Natural Selection. Natural Selection makes sense if there is a Supreme Creator but in the absence of one why does it exist?

https://lemmy.world/post/12355939

Everything is explained away in Evolution by Natural Selection. Natural Selection makes sense if there is a Supreme Creator but in the absence of one why does it exist? - Lemmy.World

Every cell, virus, plant, or animal mutation or characteristic is explained by Natural Selection. It’s almost like there is some motivation for it to make sure life exists and survives. But why do anything at all? If there is a God then it makes sense that it was put in place for life to exist but if there is no God then why don’t we just have a universe of non-living matter?

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Tagger Feb 24, 2024

Natural selection is simply the idea that all living things want to survive and reproduce.

Along with this each new being could have small mutations that make it different from others in it’s species.

Those beings born with a mutation that makes them less likely to be killed before reproducing will pass on their mutation to the next generation, meaning there will be more of that mutation in the next generation.

Continue this process many many many times and you get evolution through natural selection.

It’s not some great plan, it’s millions of individuals scrapping for survival in the face of a dangerous and uncaring world.

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gruvbin Feb 24, 2024

the idea that all living things want to survive

Where does that want come from? Why is there a want?

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loveluvieah Feb 24, 2024

Because life couldn’t exist as we know it if there wasn’t an inherent desire to live. If living organisms didn’t have that inate drive to continue living, all species would become extinct before ever evolving.

Though I don’t have any actual knowledge in this area so who knows if I’m right. Just my assumptions!

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gruvbin Feb 24, 2024

inate drive to continue living

Yeah, but why does that innate drive exist? That is what I am getting at.

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Fribbtastic

I think that it is better to say that there is a drive to not die instead of “to continue living” because this could imply that the living species makes a conscious decision to live.

It is rather that they just don’t want to get killed by predators. And that is something every living being has, including humans. Think of the fight or flight response that you get when you are confronted with a dangerous situation.

And the reason for why we have that can also be answered by natural selection, because those that did everything they could to not get eaten and produce offspring while those that were not “attractive” enough, too slow or had some other problem just couldn’t reproduce.