If humans evolved then how would one explain the nonphysical attributes that all humans posses?

Question

The type of nonphysical attributes I question are things like sadness, joy, your conscience.

Maybe I am just blubering but what if you took your watch and carefully disassembled every single piece. Now put all the pieces into a coffee can and shack it, even for billions of years. Does anyone think for a second that the pieces of your watch will ever reassemble themselves by chance and form a working watch again? probably not. Now keep in mind you at least have every piece of the watch known to make it work. Now how in the world can anyone believe for a moment that if the watch, with at best 35 known pieces, can not reassemble itself by chance. That we as a people could assemble ourselves by chance with millions of unknown pieces?

Answer 1

First off, your example simply doesn't work. You're trying to compare organic objects to inorganic objects, inanimate objects to animate objects.

Humans as a species have never been, nor can they ever be, disassembled. Humans created watch springs and screws. Humans can disassemble what they invent. But inanimate objects can not create themselves or assemble or disassemble themselves. They only wait for humans to do this to them.

Inanimate objects can not, by themselves, ever progress or evolve into something else. Animate objects (in other words living organisms), from simple cell or plant forms to complex life forms, can and continue to develop in response to exterior conditions.

A Simple Example: Humans who migrated to colder climates from warmer climates evolved as a grope physiologically to better adapt to and tolerate the colder climate. Their skin became lighter to absorb more natural light and aid in the metamorphosis process. Likewise, so did their hair colors and even the pigments of the eye. Generations later, people born in Finland are more adaptable to their extreme cold climate now than people born in Kenya. And vice verse. A native of Finland would not fair so well living in humid, always hot Kenya and a native from Kenya would freeze his butt off living in Finland without highly protective clothing.

This is evolution in it's simplest form that even the religious nut cases can't disprove because it has happened since the birth of Jesus.

(Buy the way, if you've ever owned a dog or cat then you should surely know full well that they, too, feel love, fear, loneliness and anger. All warm-blooded animals have these abilities.)

Answer 2

I think it may be because it is not just survival of the fittest anymore.

Millions of years ago, only the fastest runners, the best hunters, etc. would survive. Then civilization shifted to make intelligence a factor. It seems to me that there still might be a shift happening.

Imagine a world where your conscience or your values determined how you did in life. Sounds good to me...

Answer 3

These nonphysical attributes you mention are not unique to humans. They are found in many animals. Animals have emotions, they cooperate together, they can show altruism, they can share, they can show compassion, they show guilt, conscience, etc...

So all these nonphysical attributes are just further evolved in humans.