I mean, like Dr. Manhattan says, there is no "end", nothing ever "ends" Humans aren't the "pinnacle" or "endpoint" of anything, if we all die in a nuclear war tomorrow and there's nothing left but cockroaches that's just as much evolution as anything that happened before now
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Woman4W and
Even if evolution DID have a goal, i'm not sure why it's my problem. Evolution doesn't pay my salary.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Or on the other hand, since I am a product of evolution, whatever I do was evolution's 'goal.'
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Replying to @mssilverstein @Woman4W and
Right, the TERF shit about how trans people "defy biology" There's nothing to defy Everything we human beings do IS biology, there's no meaningful philosophical distinction
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Speaking as a professional molecular biologist, IMHO "What did nature intend" is a really weird way to live your life. Nature didn't intend anything! YOU get to decide! Which is kind of scary but also kind of liberating!
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Replying to @sayer_of_stuff @arthur_affect and
But that doesnt seem right because something in nature had to push to join the amino acids to make a chain then a protein then and then and then and then and then...complex creatures with common ancestry for nature to even have a "throw at the wall and see if it sticks"...
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Replying to @TbD92549563 @sayer_of_stuff and
Evolution doesn't "push" Evolution isn't a "force" Evolution should not be reified (fancy pants Latin for "evolution is not a thing")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TbD92549563 and
What you're describing is creationism, just with handwavy magic instead of God It's just as false either way though
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TbD92549563 and
"Evolution" is just a name for the tautology that *if* you're in a situation where a lot of random things are constantly happening, and certain things happen in a way that make it more likely for those things to repeat, then those are the things you will see continuing to happen
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Replying to @arthur_affect @TbD92549563 and
There's no pushing involved, but there is something like ratchets that bias the random process in a certain direction
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Yeah I mean what he's saying is he's really a theist in the sense of the Divine Watchmaker (someone had to set all this stuff up so this result would obtain) but whether you feel the need to believe that or not is an emotional thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LizardOrman and
I'm just asking the question what religious hokum people choose is cool with me. I dont feel the need to attack what I dont like. I'm just not ruling anything out...because I dont know.
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