I've rediscovered ancient people didn't believe in Evolution and survival of the fittest.
The subject is Darwin and I can hardly remember the last time a believer in Evolution addressed any of these points. Of course beliefs and models of other "heretics" are also rarely addressed except to name them "creationist". Darwin was wrong. Survival of the fittest isn't a thing. Life occurs only in the here and now and not even "random chance" cares about Evolution. Life occurs only as consciousness which doesn't care about how fit any individual is and only his genes and behavior. We are analog in a digital world which gave rise to a belief in Evolution. It's no rounding error but rather an error caused by perspective and assumption. It is caused by reductionism and the belief that everything seen by those standing on the shoulders of giants is real.
I think I have told this before, but it could be someone I had corresponded with others in this thread, in regarding to “survival of the fittest”.
It’s Sunday morning, I have just woken up, I am in no mood to search & chase if we had this conversation before. so forgive me if i had addressed this before, but I will say these anyway:
A) The “survival of the fittest” was invented by a British sociologist and philosopher,
Herbert Spencer, not by Darwin.
Spencer had indeed been inspired by Darwin’s On Origin Of The Species (1859), that Spencer had coined that phrase to describe biological mechanism of Natural Selection, from his view, however it was also mainly used in Spencer’s sociology work, especially
Social Darwinism, which had nothing to do with Darwin’s Natural Selection. Darwin had nothing to do with Social Darwinism.
My point here, is that the evolutionary mechanism is Natural Selection, NOT "SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST".
B) Second, even when “survival of the fittest” are being used in biology context, it is often misunderstood by people, who confuse “fittest” with being stronger, larger, faster, smarter, meaner, etc.
It has nothing to do with these things. The “fitness”, referred the abilities of the population to reproduce in environments that have changed, and the species have being able to physically adapt to the environment changes.
It has nothing to do with killing or murder or war, as
@LIIA falsely postulated, since he or she, believe that Darwin was responsible for the Nazi mass-murdering Jews in the Holocaust, during WW2. As I said earlier, Social Darwinism was political and social philosophy invented by Herbert Spencer, not by Charles Darwin.
C) Natural Selection applied to biology of all living organisms, not just with humans. Natural Selection is just biology, not political and social endeavors of humans.
For instance, other animals (other than humans), plants, fungi, bacteria & archaea have no concept of politics, eg wars, and social behaviors, eg racism. Politics play no part in Natural Selection.
D) The teaching of Darwin's original theory have been corrected and updated to the modern version of Natural Selection.
The "updated" Natural Selection, included other tested knowledge in other fields of biology, such as modern genetics, the newer clade classification in modern taxonomy, DNA testings, molecular biology, biochemistry, and so on.
All these other fields, also verify that Natural Selection is still a working mechanisms in evolutionary biology.
Now if you think there are better alternative (and working) hypothesis to replace Natural Design, then please, by all means, can you present this alternative?
As to the subject of "consciousness".
What I do remember, is having arguments with you before, in regarding to consciousness.
Consciousness is only natural capabilities of higher functions of certain animals, meaning animals with brains and sensory nervous systems (I am not referring to only humans; it could be other mammals, reptiles, birds, fishes, etc).
Sensory nervous systems include any of the sensory organs (eg eyes, ears, nose, etc) that provide provide level of awareness to any organism of its surroundings, in which are rely back to brains via the nervous systems. The sensory organs are all parts of the nervous systems of certain animals.
- The complex nerves system of the eyes, provide visual awareness, that the visual information are process by the brain’ visual cortex.
- The ears work with the auditory cortex located in the temporal lobe, that process sounds.
- The olfactory system that include the functions of the nose, which provide some animals (eg mammals, reptiles) with the sense of smell. As I said before, I am not a biologist, so I am uncertain of which part(s) of the brain control the olfactory system.
- Taste, I don’t know how the system of taste work, except that is part of woking with the mouths of animals, during the eating process.
- Somatosensory system provide the senses to touch and pain, and I don’t know which part of the brain control this system (somatosensory cortex?). The somatosensory system also play role in reflex and balance.
Not all animals have central nervous systems (eg brain, spinal cord), or any of these sensory nervous systems, eg sponges, corals are marine invertebrates that have no central nervous systems. Whether these animals (with no central nervous systems) have consciousness or not, cannot be tested.
And not all living organisms are animals, such as plants, fungi and bacteria haven’t nervous systems.
So consciousness isn’t requirements for all life.
Like LIIA, you are mainly focused on humans. Natural Selection as well as other evolutionary mechanisms (eg mutations, genetic drift, etc) are the studies in biology of all living organisms, not just human biology.
You are so focused in your little world and fantasy, you forget that biology is more than those of humans. Consciousness played no parts with plants, fungi, bacteria & archaea, and even not with a number of species of animals (mainly invertebrates).