Is death just another way of evolving for all life forms?
2006-09-04 04:21:59 · 11 answers · asked by ? 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
No. Death is the end of a physical living state.
Evolution is the change that takes place in a species over several generations.
I see what you were stabbing at. They seem similar in concept but not completely applicable.
2006-09-04 06:17:07 · answer #1 · answered by spidertiger440 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure what you mean by ULTIMATE evolution unless you are implying that death is the "final" evolution; in that sense, no, not at all. Death, of all species, is an important part of species adaptation. You see, it is not the fittest species that survive, but rather the most adaptive to change. If a species keeps dying for one reason or another, only the members of that species who have somehow discovered how NOT to die in the same manner of their peers will pass on those traits to further generations, therefore resulting in only fittest of that species. Over hundreds of thousands of years, this process may evolve the species into a perfectly adapted, albeit different than the original, species.
It's quite simple; also, evolution is a fact, I don't believe any religion disputes that. People simply misunderstand the use of the term "theory," which, in science, may very well describe something that is held as infallable.
2006-09-04 11:30:02 · answer #2 · answered by Soda Popinski 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Death has always been around, and hasn't evolved. It can't really evolve though anyways because it's never been living and it's not an idea. Death is just a part of life.
2006-09-04 12:52:18 · answer #3 · answered by Sirius Black 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
without death evolution could not happen. both death and new life are the essence of life evolving. its a myth to think that just because someone believes in evolution they don't believe in god and heaven i think the vast majority of Christians in Europe believe both in god and they accept evolution, by the way you don't go to an after life until the second coming i believe. personally i think once your dead your dead. and all the people who believe in evolution are not immoral, grim materialist. i see beauty everywhere, trees, clouds, the blossoming of life as it endlessly evolves and not just life but the physical evolution of our universe, like a rose opening as stars grow old and die in spectacularly beautiful novas and as the galaxies spin ever outward from each other.
2006-09-04 13:33:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dont believe in evolution but those that do death would just be death.No heaven ,no love,no beauty to to look forward to.Glad I'm going to a better place and will meet those that believe in evolution on the other side.lol
2006-09-04 12:16:53 · answer #5 · answered by mustang 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For those who believe in evolution;it is the living members of the specie that evolve ,not the dead.
2006-09-04 11:27:21 · answer #6 · answered by sunshine 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can't exactly "evolve" into death. But mostly like as time progresses species will slowly die out, leading to an inevitable death. So in a way, you could say that...
2006-09-04 11:25:15 · answer #7 · answered by Game Guy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Death is to life as marble to the sculptor,
Waits for the touch that lets the soul go free;
Death is that moment when the swimmer feels
The swift pain of the plunge into the pool,
Followed by laughter where the bubbles flow
From the divided water and the sun
Turns them to crystal: life and light are one."
- The Modernists, by Robert Norwood, p. 57, Socrates
2006-09-04 11:30:14 · answer #8 · answered by CosmicKiss 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LIFE is evolution! DEATH is the end of it!
2006-09-04 11:29:37 · answer #9 · answered by nAiSa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't believe death is evolution.
Evolution involves genetic mutations over many years. I don't see how death is part of this process.
2006-09-04 14:08:53 · answer #10 · answered by Michael M 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋