To: JudgemAll
Why did bird have to face natural selection on the contact of different environment while man did not need to be in contact with outerspace to adapt to it?
Because we are tool users? Because we can create ways to protect ourselves from the environments we encounter, whereas birds cannot. By the way, what is your point?
90 posted on
06/10/2003 9:12:15 AM PDT by
Aric2000
(If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance god)
To: Aric2000
My point is that man's "natural" selection did not apparently occur as a result of direct contact to environment, but as a result of imagined and pre-planned contact to environment he or she could imagine or calculate.
Again, man has evolved not out of regular Darwinian adaptation, but has achieved a leap into abstractions that has not been addressed by scientists. While animals mold to environment, man modifies it for his own benefit and comfort. How did that occur? Unless, by Darwinian concept, it is man who is immanent and nature that adapts to it!! according to Darwinian natural selection and evolution.
With man evolution is reversed! It is not man which adapts, but the natural world which is forced to adapt to man! Man of course risks evolving backwardly and fall into moral decay if he or she makes too high demands on nature or on fellow men and women. Yet man evolves, or seem to improve in intelligence, yet he is not motivated to evolve, but to make nature evolve to it, as if man was ultiamte imanent universe to which all things had to adapt, even God.
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