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Don't know the science involved but how does the evolution of life strictly out of impersonal forces over eons of time transmute into a process that somehow can
by grellas 17y ago
Don't know the science involved but how does the evolution of life strictly out of impersonal forces over eons of time transmute into a process that somehow can be controlled by any species? In other words, if the very nature of being is purely and eternally impersonal (i.e., no deity or other overriding intelligent force as creator or overseer of creation), on what basis can this possibly change to the point where there emerges a controlling, purposeful force that suddenly overrides everything else in existence?
Is there some form of science that attempts to describe how that change occurred or is it a philosophical assumption based on a worldview tied to evolution?
- billybob 17y agoIf I understand you correctly, you're saying that if being is the result of chance, then so are our wills. So if evolution is the universe blindly programming creatures, then human-directed evolution is the universe blindly meta-programming, via our wills. In other words, destiny and purpose are illusions in a materialistic worldview. (How we manage to perceive them is another paradox.)
- ErrantX 17y agoThe pithy response might be: because evolution itself has evolved.