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I’ve never been entirely satisfied with Darwin’s theories of evolution. Waiting for mutations to occur has always struck me as a slow way to evolve, take a giraffe for instance why should a slight gain in neck length out perform the shorter necked giraffe to the point that one goes out of existence. I’m sorry but it just does not work. But neither does the idea that some intelligent being is making the changes. Life has been evolving for 500 million years; even if this is blink of an eye for god why take so long over it. In fact if god was so clever why not get it right first time, instead of confusing us all with a half nature, half god evolution. Any way I’ve thought about this years and have come up with my own theory of evolution, maybe some one else has come to the same conclusions, I hope so.
Evolution Driven by Desire.
Back to the giraffe analogy. The short necked giraffe looked up at the trees and desired the leaves, after all he was hungry and hunger is a great motivator. He stretched as far as he could for an entire lifetime. His offspring born into the same circumstances desired the same leaves, generation after generation stretched, trying to reach as far as they could. Now lets consider that the blueprint for each successive generation of giraffe is stored in its parents DNA, what if during their lifetime of stretching they somehow change the code a little? Its not that crazy really is it; these tiny stings of coding are within the body of the giraffe, why shouldn’t they be adjusted while the giraffe is alive. After thousands of generations we end up with the long necked giraffe we all recognise. If you apply evolution driven by desire to any creature it works perfectly. Whether it’s the cheater’s desire to run faster so she can catch the antelope, (and the antelopes desire to run faster to escape the cheater) or the elephant who just wanted to be big so no animal would prey on him. Notice that survival is the great motivator but what happens when survival is no longer a problem, perhaps evolution for that species grinds to a halt, or perhaps new desires take over.
What about mans evolution? The basic model of man is at least a million years old, and perhaps this design was reached by the desire to survive, but once we had reached our optimum physical design what drove us then? Perhaps our desire to communicate. Like many animals of the same species we lived in communities and we quickly found we needed a language, although we did not know that’s what was needed. As well as a few physical changes language required a greater mental capacity. You can’t underestimate just how much smarter we needed to be to talk, look at computers no matter how powerful they get simple speech recognition software is still pathetic when compared to a child. So we desired intelligence, and the most interesting part of this evolutionary process was just how fast we became smart, the more you use the brain the better it becomes. With intelligence came questions, the same questions we are still asking today who, what and why. More importantly a new desire, one that is more powerful than anything we or any other creature had experienced before. The desire to continue to exist after death. We have never been able to cheat death, ultimately it gets us all. What if we would not accept death now that we where aware of our own existence. We desired to live on, we desired heaven, we desired god. Now this for me is the whole point, I believe that our desire to have a god has given us one, it is real as the trees outside but it exists because we created it, it did not create us. I think gods existence is as much grounded in science as it is philosophy, and I don’t doubt that although it may have been created by us it has long been independent of us. It has always been intelligent and even exercises influence in our world, not the physical world, just us, I don't think you can blame god for earth quakes ans tsunamis. It is also possible that there are several gods each created by different communities, but I doubt they have the same petty arguments we have. Maybe it is time to start desiring life again so we can evolve a little further, because we have truly lost the plot of late. Thats my two penith worth
Evolution Driven by Desire.
Back to the giraffe analogy. The short necked giraffe looked up at the trees and desired the leaves, after all he was hungry and hunger is a great motivator. He stretched as far as he could for an entire lifetime. His offspring born into the same circumstances desired the same leaves, generation after generation stretched, trying to reach as far as they could. Now lets consider that the blueprint for each successive generation of giraffe is stored in its parents DNA, what if during their lifetime of stretching they somehow change the code a little? Its not that crazy really is it; these tiny stings of coding are within the body of the giraffe, why shouldn’t they be adjusted while the giraffe is alive. After thousands of generations we end up with the long necked giraffe we all recognise. If you apply evolution driven by desire to any creature it works perfectly. Whether it’s the cheater’s desire to run faster so she can catch the antelope, (and the antelopes desire to run faster to escape the cheater) or the elephant who just wanted to be big so no animal would prey on him. Notice that survival is the great motivator but what happens when survival is no longer a problem, perhaps evolution for that species grinds to a halt, or perhaps new desires take over.
What about mans evolution? The basic model of man is at least a million years old, and perhaps this design was reached by the desire to survive, but once we had reached our optimum physical design what drove us then? Perhaps our desire to communicate. Like many animals of the same species we lived in communities and we quickly found we needed a language, although we did not know that’s what was needed. As well as a few physical changes language required a greater mental capacity. You can’t underestimate just how much smarter we needed to be to talk, look at computers no matter how powerful they get simple speech recognition software is still pathetic when compared to a child. So we desired intelligence, and the most interesting part of this evolutionary process was just how fast we became smart, the more you use the brain the better it becomes. With intelligence came questions, the same questions we are still asking today who, what and why. More importantly a new desire, one that is more powerful than anything we or any other creature had experienced before. The desire to continue to exist after death. We have never been able to cheat death, ultimately it gets us all. What if we would not accept death now that we where aware of our own existence. We desired to live on, we desired heaven, we desired god. Now this for me is the whole point, I believe that our desire to have a god has given us one, it is real as the trees outside but it exists because we created it, it did not create us. I think gods existence is as much grounded in science as it is philosophy, and I don’t doubt that although it may have been created by us it has long been independent of us. It has always been intelligent and even exercises influence in our world, not the physical world, just us, I don't think you can blame god for earth quakes ans tsunamis. It is also possible that there are several gods each created by different communities, but I doubt they have the same petty arguments we have. Maybe it is time to start desiring life again so we can evolve a little further, because we have truly lost the plot of late. Thats my two penith worth
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