Humans have a very functional system to maintain life;why does it degrade and then die?

Question

it certainly just evolves to die?
We start as babies and we evolve to adult hood, middle age ,old age , old old age,then die. This is a scientific observation about human life decay.and I asked non scientists and they seem to confirm it ;even thought we cannot believe what non scientist observe.

did evolution theory lied to us=we degrade?

Its depressing

after so many years of evolution we still drop dead?

I personally no like to die!

More power to him who has descendents.

More power to him who has descendents.

kidd666= Im not sure if i is liking evolution. it make dead .evolution bad.

afeter so many marriages down the line my genes would split into a thounsand and tn=housands of different gennes to the point where my hereditary genes would have disapeared . boy Im dead.

except in nono-organism(parsitic systems like viruses) mutant Dna would be the result of check and balance of the Dna control system and has nothing to do with evolving.When mutation occur In muti -system organism like the human system progeny fails to take place.Hence no mutant evolving system lives.Genetics and Evolution are not Philosophically related

Answer 1

The soul is what evolves and matures. The body is only the shell the soul resides in. It has to be a complicated mechanized system to be as functional as it is.
Why? Scientists can't ansewer that question because it's not a science question, and becuase it's an answer God hasn't allowed us to discover yet.

Answer 2

Okay, don't read this if your are completely against evolution:

Organisms evolve when their genetic code is incapable of mantaining it's original sequence. Once can say that human's (who have gone through one of the most dynamic set of evolutions) are the product of the most mistakes.

Many times, an organism will aquire DNA typos that can be lethal. Sometimes though, the typo is advantageous to the lifeform, prolonging its DNA's existence. One of the simplest most ancient organisms that is still around is algae. Algae don't die, they simply run out of resources. None of their simple genetic code that fit's onto a few papers leads to death. Trees have quite simple DNA too, fitting into a normal sized dictionary. Some trees have programmed death, some don't and live forever until conditions are too unfavorable.

Animalia have plenty of programmed death (apopstatis or something like that). Cancer is one of these. The regulator gene that controls how many times our cells can reproduce spontaneously fails and creates an ever growing glob of that cell that consumes until it has no more. This can happen in the most healthiest animals.

Most animals have a problem that deals with the absence of stem cells. Not everything in an animal body can be replaced. If you lose an eye, it's not going to grow back. If a plant loses a branch, it will grow back. Even if a plant loses everthing but it's roots, it will attempt to repair itself by mitosis of the absent cells.

Animal cells have a much higher metabolic rate since they generate heat, and use mitochondria for energy.

I have to argue with your question though. Humans do not have a very functional system to mantain life. We just have a very sophisticated and well developed homeostatic system to mantain balance across our entire body. Homeostatis can be described as a system to slow the reaching of inevitable death.

Answer 3

Evolution is all aobut a population adapting, not an individual. A population wouldn't be able to evolve if eventually all the resources were expended. That's why there are cues in cells that tell when it's time for something to die, such of old age. Cell division begins to fail, it's like epistasis but on a grander much more vital scale....organisms need to die so future generations can come and go....who knows why we can't just have ever lasting life and ever lasting resources....

Answer 4

This is because of the chemical actions that keep the system alive, it produces heat and waste products which both lead to degradation of the system.
We are not here to live forever but to pass on our genetics and through only those surviving to the age to pass on our genetics ony strong genes are passed and the species evolves with strong genes and the weak and old die to reduce the burden on the strong.

That's evolution Baby!

Answer 5

The human body, like everything else in this world experiences the "cycle of life." All things have a beginning and a time to experience this world, and then experiences a "change" which is referred to as Death. Time has a way of wareing everything out and with out that "change" life could not continue ...

Nothing ever really dies, it just changes throughout the cycle of life. We are like the catterpillars who wonder if it's true about becomming butterflies.

You're correct, we do start out as infants, grow to adulthood and then in most cases, we go back to being an infant ... a perfect circle. We experience death, where our bodies go back to the earth and our bodies change into life-giving energies for other things to live. Our Spirit is released at the moment of death, just like the butterfly from it's cacoon. The spirit, is also an energy, which is obviously impossible to see ... but that's what I believe.

Answer 6

A human body is like a very complex hybrid of machine and computer. Like any machine or computer, with proper care and maintenance, it can last a very long time. However, with the ravages of time, and the inevitable strike of viruses, the body simply can't continue perpetually. Wear and tear causes physical breakdown, and viruses and bacteria cause various other biological functions to cease or malfunction. Ultimately, that leads to death.

Answer 7

The idea is that evolutionary pressures are NOT applicable to organisms that have passed the standard age of reproduction. Without natural selection, a "functional system to maintain life" is not maintained.

Answer 8

all living things born and die. It is deeply related to cell division and your body slowing down activities in your body. Evolution did not lie. Those pre-homo sapien species also grew, developed, and died. and now here we are, as Homo Sapiens Sapiens.

and speaking of evolution, it is more to do with adaption and survival of fittest (and genetic mutation) then living long.

Answer 9

We are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. Our bodies live forever in the genes of our offspring and all of our descendents.

Answer 10

That is how it should be, not everyone can live forever, what would be their purpose to live forever after they have done everything that they have wanted to do in their lifetime. No one should have to live forever, it's not natural for someone to live for a very long time. It's just nature taking it's course. I think when someone dies a baby is born.