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We're the species currently dominating a niche. Calling anything the 'pinnacle' of evolution implies some sort of progress towards perfection. Evolution does
by tom_rath 16y ago
We're the species currently dominating a niche.
Calling anything the 'pinnacle' of evolution implies some sort of progress towards perfection. Evolution does not work that way.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoSays a member of the only race in 2 billion years that CAN argue about it...
- tom_rath 16y agoYou misunderstand how evolution works. It is not a progression towards perfection. You're conflating biological evolution with creationism / 'intelligent design'.
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoNo, I'm being funny. Somebody else is using words like "conflating".
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoAny anyway, how do you explain going from single-celled creatures to working organisms with a trillion cells? Darwin claims species are driven by their environment to better compete - is that not something like perfecting them?
- AndrewDucker 16y agoNo. Perfection implies a scale with a top end. We compete for spaces in a niche, we don't compete to be all round "better".
- JoeAltmaier 16y agoOk, but Pinnacle describes a local maximum, which seems to describe us perfectly.