I have no doubts about the fundamentals of evolution?

Question

But why does life even *care* about survival?

Answer 1

Are you saying there is no afterlife? How do you prove that or do you believe it by faith?

Answer 2

What do you mean by life "caring" about survival?

Does a tree "care" about surviving? No. Caring implies awareness. And yet everything about the tree operates towards survival and reproduction.

So to answer your question, life "cares" about survival only for one reason ... to reproduce. Why? Because things that reproduce, result in other things that inherit the same drive and ability to reproduce. That's it. If something survives but does not reproduce, then evolution does not see it ... it is invisible as far as evolution is concerned.

Answer 3

Life at the beginning of creation did not care about survival.Only about eating and reproducing.
It was not until the Creator let the Souls that it had made into the Physical Universe that we exist in now to see what It had Made. And most of these souls entered into the physical bodies of what was there became so entranced by the sensations that they forgot how to leave and where they really came from did life start to care about its own individual survival.

Answer 4

Because of evolution. Those organisms which *cared* about survival were more likely to survive. Hence, via natural selection, life *cares* about it's survival.

Answer 5

An excellent phylosophical point! I don't have time to answer right now, though I have some thoughts (email me if you like and I'll offer more of a response). But I will certainly be interested to see what others have to say!

By the way, you might want to read the book, "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins (it should be at your local library). It deals in depth with this very issue.

Answer 6

Man created god for man cared about survival. It explains evolution very well. As man gained more knowledge about science and philosophy, man found ways about survival that are more logical and started to question religion and god.

Answer 7

Depending on your perspective, life doesn't care per se, but life is, and what is more conducive toward life persists, and what is destructive is prone to disappearing.

What is more perfect, relatrively, is relatively more lasting, and what is entirely perfect is eternal/self-subsistant. Perfectly odered equilibrium is subject to only change of appearance, but its essential nature remains ever the same. All disorder decays inherently, i.e. it has entropy.

To keep everything in proper perspective, and judge fairly is to have an orderly, and perfect mind, whilst judging things not according to reality, but merely appearance, is to suffer a disordered mind.

Answer 8

The only real question here concerning Evolution of Humanity is : Why has Humanity evolved 1000's of times more than Primates? God Bless !!

Answer 9

You were not meant to die. God created you with that inate sense. We all die because of the first sin, believing we are better than God or could be better than God, when Eve ate the fruit in the Garden of Eden. Now some people don't even believe there is a God, but He instilled us all with a conscience- a knowledge of right & wrong, & the knowledge that we weren't meant to die. If we accept Christ as our Saviour our bodies still have to die once, but not our souls. If we don't accept Christ as our saviour, ( & also our friend!), our bodies AND our souls have to die.

Answer 10

Excellent question.

Animals do not have a sentient awareness, and yet they do wish to survive.
Do bacteria or a virus or other simple forms of life exhibit the same behavior? Yes, I believe they do, but they are not conscience of it.

Humans are.

The reason for this, however, is where we disagree.

Answer 11

It is an unharness source of energy. A force that no one has yet tried to tap. It is a natural resource, not unlike the rays of the sun, or the wind against your face, or the ocean's wave, or the maw of the volcano.