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Life doesn't evolve to cope with anything. Life evolves as it adds variety and some of it gets cut down by the environment. Narratives implying teleology are mi
by namaria 3y ago
Life doesn't evolve to cope with anything. Life evolves as it adds variety and some of it gets cut down by the environment. Narratives implying teleology are misleading and wrong.
- chasil 3y agoRegardless, prokaryotes lacked the ability to tolerate the oxygen that they (as cyanobacteria) produced. This crushing limit lasted for billions of years, until the age of eukaryotes. This step is as much of a mystery as the Cambrian Explosion.
- smeagull 3y agoMetaphor is a common and delightful way to use language - you should try it sometime. It helps avoid the delusion that language has some inherent amount of rigor or correctness. Or that grammatical rules actually exist unchanging rather than being rules written by people making them up from the types of language and speaker that they approve of.
- namaria 3y agoMetaphors can be wrong. This one, for example, is.