[ExI] nature's indifference to survival

[Ben Zaiboc]

On 24/10/2026 12:58, John K Clark wrote:
> nature "wants" certain genes to survive but is indifferent about the survival of individual animals, and the result of this process is that an astronomical amount of cruelty is necessary for Darwinian Evolution to produce even the smallest improvement in a species. 
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> That's why I could never understand scientists like Francis Collins (former head of the Human Genome Project) who is absolutely certain that Darwin was right but is even more certain that God exists and Jesus is his son. Darwinian Evolution is just about the most brutal process imaginable for producing complex objects, so if Francis Collins is correct then God is a sadistic monster. But in the way his ideas are consistent, only a sadistic monster would believe that the only way He (that is to say God) could forgive humanity for the sin of one of his ancestors eating an apple when told not to, is for humans to torture His son to death.


'I hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage'

Yes, religion makes perfect sense.
-- 
Ben
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." - Pablo Casals, via Albert Einstein