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I cringe whenever I hear someone say that we evolved to do certain things/act in certain ways to ensure the "survival of the species".
No. We did not evolve to make sure that "the species" survives. We evolved to do certain things because doing those things led to YOUR genes being passed on.

>> No.11237937

>>11237935
agreed

>> No.11237940

>>11237935
So you think this post would ensure your genes are passed on?

>> No.11237941

>>11237935
Random natural selection couldn't have led to life as complex as humans. The evolution was clearly directed by God.

>> No.11237943

>>11237940
femanon here, I'd be willing to pass OPs genes on based on his post
I have a girl penis though, has science figured this out yet so we can have man penis / woman penis children?

>> No.11237948

>>11237941
>Random natural selection couldn't have led to life as complex as humans
Why not?

>> No.11237949

>>11237935
What is the difference other than your perspective is derived from foresight and their perspective is based on hindsight?

>>11237943
Scientists have developed ways to turn human skin cells into eggs or sperm or you could always involve a random women and have a chimeric baby with OP.

>> No.11237951

>>11237941
This but by aliens.

>> No.11237955

>>11237935
Your genes don't get passed on when your species dies out.

>> No.11237962

>>11237949
I'm not sure what foresight and hindsight has to do with it. What I'm saying is that genes have been selected based on what helps the individual that carries those genes to have surviving offpsring, not what helps "the species" as a whole survive.

>> No.11237965

>>11237962
You are talking from the perspective of only looking forward, while they are taking into account the historical context.

Evolution doesn't just apply to individuals, it applies to groups, such as species, especially species that are very social like humans, its why tribalism, religion, and commerce evolved.

>> No.11237976

>>11237948
trochlea

>> No.11237988

tfw i was taught "survival of the species" in a high school
what about you?

>> No.11237989

>>11237988
I was taugh that there are 4 races.

>> No.11237994

>>11237941
you're just a retard that cannot comprehend the scale of time and the Earth

>> No.11238007

>>11237935
bays'd
this is just the orgy of motion. particles interacting. some became complex and self replicating, that's why we still see them in their complex nature.
what was it that Sartre said about essence?
>>11237943
>"""fem"""anon
>has a dick
I've stopped caring. have fun femanon.

>> No.11239138

>>11237976

Everytime you fundies bring up a biological mechanism that "could not have evolved" we spend days proving how it can while you sit back drink mimosa at your golf country club. Here is an idea, you fucking faggot, how about you spend some of your own time and figure out how a trochlea evolved, because it 100% did, just like everything else. There are millions of structures within a body down to the cellular level, we're not going to sit here and go sown the list for you one by one

>> No.11239146

>>11237976
>>11239138

We're down with this game where we act like the burden of proof is on us. We have proven evolution. Now if you want to disprove evolve, you can try and do that, and it will take more than you giving one word responses. You could write up a whole report, and we will most likely glance at the first paragraph and then toss it in the trash, but if that floats your boat then go for it.

>> No.11239151

>>11238007
>I've stopped caring. have fun femanon.

a defeated homophobe.

not sure how to categorize this one.

Anon, congratulations, you're probably the straightest person on the whole site.

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>>11239151
>Anon, congratulations, you're probably the straightest person on the whole site.
not sure that means much from a reddit fag but whatever.
I'm a defeated soul. I can no longer spare the energy to be an "edgy" 4chins MLG gamer. It's not fun anymore.