Thread: There has to be an answer

Originally Posted by Xei

That doesn't really make any sense.

What do you mean by purpose? Do you mean to provide some kind of natural harmony? That's not really true, organisms exist to recreate themselves, not serve a higher purpose.

And if by purpose you in fact mean 'to exist and hence reproduce themselves'; well, then there have never been any organisms without purpose so it's an empty statement.

Evolution and natural selection teaches that any creature or trait that isn't beneficial or useful to other creatures will gradually become extinct. I'm not talking about "wishy washy" purposes, just logical purposes to the ecosystem.

And in response to the argument that our planet is not a living organism, rather nothing but a dead, cold rock:





Looks like quite a bit of complex and constantly changing activity for a rock in space that's supposed to be lifeless except for the surface. Ironically, this view is shallow.

Originally Posted by DeeryTheDeer

Evolution and natural selection teaches that any creature or trait that isn't beneficial or useful to other creatures will gradually become extinct. I'm not talking about "wishy washy" purposes, just logical purposes to the ecosystem.

And in response to the argument that our planet is not a living organism, rather nothing but a dead, cold rock:





Looks like quite a bit of complex and constantly changing activity for a rock in space that's supposed to be lifeless except for the surface. Ironically, this view is shallow.

Nobody said the Earth was cold or not complex.