According to evolution wouldn't all of life that existed right now just be based on "things that have worked". For example mothers loving their kids or people trying to be successful, motivation etc... all things that have worked when being lazy, rape, stealing are in a different category, (not an evil or bad one) just a not working one?
2006-09-07 04:18:13 · 13 answers · asked by Tony 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Evolution occurs in life threatening situations.
i.e. the finches. they had to evolve to best suit their surrounding food sources
2006-09-07 04:20:09 · answer #1 · answered by Southpaw 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are looking at evolution and nature then you can't exactly deem rape to be a negative thing... I know we look at it as a bad thing but in nature things get raped all the time, most of them don't bother about it... Dogs are a good example of that... They don't see it as 'rape' and if they do they bite the other dogs face off... Survival of the fittest and all that...
Stealing is another thing which you can't deem bad when looking at nature... Stealing and rape being seen as 'bad' are both moral judgements, some animals take things off others and if they are strong enough they keep what they take...
Being lazy is a negative thing, look at the Sloth... That's a creature that's going nowhere... If creatures or people just sit around they get nothing done, get fat and die... That's a fact the world over.
2006-09-07 04:23:47 · answer #2 · answered by just_another_user 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haard to say. It depends on how much metaphysics you put on the aspect of love. If you think of love as purely human or purely chemical then, maybe. But most humans who believe in eviolution still believe in spiritual love.
For example, Wiccans, although they acknowledge evolution still believe that spiritual energy is everywhere and can be focused. Love is one of those types of energy. SO it is both chemical and spiritual.
Evolution is based on the fact that organisms adapt to their environment. Some say that humans have grown past evolution because we no longer adapt to our environment.
There are many reasons for this. It is up to you what you want to believe.
2006-09-07 04:23:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure I understand your question, but I believe evolution is based on survival. I am a Christian, but I still believe in evolution. God created everything, including science. Evolution is His way of improving things.
2006-09-07 04:27:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because "things that work" change over time. There are lots of things that exist today that "don't work", but there are also lots of things that didn't work that have become extinct, like neanderthals.
And by the way, if food is short and someone steals someone else's food, who lives and who starves?
2006-09-07 04:21:48 · answer #5 · answered by 006 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rape and stealing did work. It's the way of nature. Ever seen packs of carnivores brutally murdering their prey? It might not be pretty, but it works, and their ability to do so gave them their place on the food chain. Life is brutal.
2006-09-07 04:21:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a one in a billion chance to find things that work but evolution had billions of years to find them, and that fact that they exist means that evolution is true.
2006-09-07 04:21:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Natural biological evolution fails at all levels except for those species numbering more than about one quadrillion individuals with generation times less than three months and body sizes smaller than one centimeter.
http://www.reasons.org/
2006-09-09 20:10:26 · answer #8 · answered by mrpink 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cooperation, altruism and love are innate properties of human existence... a more sophisticated version of the social organization that you can see among pods of dolphins or orcas, packs of wolves, lion prides and troops of chimpanzees. Moral consensus, moral conscience and mutual empathy are evolved survival traits. These are social constructs... the social lubrication that allows people to exist together. People come away with the misconception that they don't exist, absent religion. The religious puppet masters try to perpetuate that idea, in order to protect their conduits to wealth and power... but that is a canard. This has to do, entirely, with human nature.
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2006-09-07 04:20:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You are looking on short term, evolution is longggg term process.
And its just about survival of the species, all is allowed to let the species survive.
2006-09-07 04:26:16 · answer #10 · answered by Chri R 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋