Sunday, January 18, 2015

Undermining Evolution

     We spend a lot of time and energy on our environment.  We recycle to help minimize waste.  We worry about plastic bottles littering our oceans, plastic bag kites, and pollution from coal, gas and oil.  Should we really spend time and energy trying to save our world?  Perhaps there are worlds that are superior to our world.  Perhaps this is not the "most fit" planet to survive.  If this is the case, we may be working against evolution by helping an inferior planet survive.  On the other hand, if our world is a superior planet, why do we need to help it.  In evolutionary thought, the superior survives on its own and doesn't actually need help.
      When I air up the tires on my car, the air machines says "Feed the Children".  We have many causes from breast cancer to solving the mystery of autism, to saving the whales from extinction.  However, in evolution, species are supposed to become extinct.  The weaker ones are supposed to die off and get out of the way of progress.  Only the strongest are supposed to survive and continue evolving.  Extinction is not a worry because new and better species are supposed to evolve.  Are our many causes a hindrance to evolution?  Are we getting in the way of progress?
      What about social issues?  Can racism be tolerated?  Can one race of people be deemed superior or more evolved and another race inferior or unnecessary for evolution's continual advancement?  Discrimination seems to be necessary for the process of evolution.  Medicaid and medicare are counterproductive to the process.  The evolution of the strongest parts of our society have to be the main focus.  Nature will naturally allow the strongest to continue and advance without our help.  While helping the poor and the weak is an important aspect of morality, it has nothing to do with the evolutionary process.
      We are flooded with a plethora of social and environmental causes.  If you really feel strongly about your favorite cause, perhaps you do not really believe in the reality of evolution.  Then again, perhaps evolution is not reality.  Perhaps it is just an overblown, worn-out theory.

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