Just wondering.....hey evolutionists out there??

Question

how do you feel to know that you have evolved from some sort of inate life forms
do you have meaning in life?

does it make you feel a little degraded?

I'm not trying to be funny but I really want to know

Answer 1

It's kind of funny to me the way people create this artificial distinction between "evolutionism" and "creationism."

As a biotech researcher, who has had this conversation with many other scientific researchers, one thing makes me laugh.

Can't you just take any sort of scientific discovery and say "God invented that?" or "God inspired them to discover that?" or, by the same token "God created life such that it would evolve and change over time."

Can't everyone appreciate the natural world and all the things we learn about it for what they are? And the more wondrous they are, the more power you can attribute to God.

(Hope this perspective helps, or at least makes you think!)

Answer 2

Inate? Perhaps innate? We are all innate, in that we are born into what we are.

As far as evolution is concerned, would it make you feel less "special" to find that you are the current ultimate achievement in a multi-billion-year process that began with a single cell, which itself began from processes set in motion millennia prior to that?

Whether some god made us at once, or if it was done through a process that a deity set in motion, or whether it is a remarakable accident of nature, we are here and able to contemplate it. That alone makes us uniquely special. If you need external validation, perhaps that's a problem in itself.

There are many creation myths, and everyone is free to choose the ones they wish. Evolution is the myth of Science; Genesis is the myth of the Jews and Christians; The Native Americans have their own, just as do all other cultures.

Myth doesn't mean falsehood, but is simply an explanation for what is. It may be true or it may be false, but it is simply an explanation.

Some of us feel uncomfortable when faced with other's myths, and perhaps that's because they are alien to us. This doesn't mean that they are lacking in any important truth. Maybe someday we'll be able to reconcile our varied myths to some degree. We certainly won't be able to do so without knowing each of them.

Answer 3

Not really, since to us, everybody came from an "inate life form". I think it's cool that over millenia we could evolve from unintelligent animals into the smartest species on the planet, maybe in the solar system, and that we've achieved seemingly impossible feats like space travel, and that this whole evolution thing happened by itself. Science is awesome.

Answer 4

Where I came from does not change what I am.

Anyway I find it amazing how life evolved. Like how even little cells began to cooperate and join together to form multi-celled beings to survive. You can really see the balance of life and purpose of everything. Like, predators evolved to eat prey; the prey evolved to defend against the predators; then the predators evolved again. The forces of light and dark, life and death, working together in harmony, creating each other. This really fits my Taoist view of the Universe - all is in harmony.

Answer 5

I'm still waiting to see that fossil of a lizard that's front appendages aren't legs but aren't wings yet either. And if you think you are at the top of the latter, just strip down to your underware and try spending the night in the African Savannah, go one on one with nature.

Answer 6

I feel that I am part of a chain of life stretching back for countless generations over millions of years. I feel that that is far more meaningful than being created at the whim of some deity.

Answer 7

Yes, I do have meaning in life, because life is the only place you'll find it.

No, it doesn't make me feel degraded. It makes me feel the rest of the universe is upgraded.

Answer 8

There's no meaning in life except to die. Until that happens, I like to gain knowledge and express it here on Y!A.

Yes, we evolved.

Answer 9

Yer kiddn', right? (sigh...)
1. Neither here nor there.
2. No.
3. No.
(Anything else? Use Additional Details for the meat.)

Answer 10

I am descended through generations of men and women who learned about themselves and their environment just by looking, and listening, and trying things out. They descended through generations of hominids who used their brains creatively in order to manage their environment. They descended through millions of generations of mammals, who adapted their bodies to warm themselves and carry and feed and care for their young to better propagate the species. They descended through billions of generations of reptiles who conquered all other animals and ruled the Earth. They descended from amphibians, fishes, arthropods all of whom were noble, beautiful creatures, worth our respect. A long, long time ago, a little tiny bit of protein, water, and a mix of other chemicals wiggled a bit and managed to replicate itself in a wonderous and beautiful manner. This is my family tree. I am much much more than a bit of mud!