Interesting points. I think your comments help elucidate my point that evolution is not so simple as to be glibly thrown around as the reason for every human be

Interesting points. I think your comments help elucidate my point that evolution is not so simple as to be glibly thrown around as the reason for every human behavior. >> Taken to the extreme, why have we even developed arms, legs, eyes, ears, and minds? Simple bacterial reproduction does just fine. > I don't get what you are trying to prove here. What is your explanation for the fact that we developed those things? Back to my point, everyone assumes that evolution simply means "survival of the fittest" or the "propagation of the gene". If that's all there is to it, there's no obvious explanation for the emergence of higher-order organisms, since bacterial reproduction provides by far the most efficient mechanism for copying genes. All this is to say that the devil is in the details and there is actually quite a bit more to evolution than what is taught in 7th grade biology.