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One of the alluring things about evolution is the time. It cannot be seen--by the time it has affected us, it is done. You and evolution have already crossed paths; evolution is already done with you. The only only time you will meet again is in those brief and secondary seconds of climax when you create more life.
Which again meets evolution only for a second and then moves on again.
The only counter to this is when we think about the traits that we as humans have that are not inherently passed down within our genes but rather through our social interactions. The traits we pass on from generation to generation--our "family values". The things which keep people and families together or break them apart.
Which assumes that these things are taught and not just inherently within ourselves from the beginning. But who is to say that's true? Are butterflies taught by their parents to migrate thousands of miles from the top of our continent to the bottom? Are birds taught to lay their eggs in a nest and protect them? Are they together still because of things passed on through generations?
Similarly, do we learn our social sets from the people around us or are they set within us already? What does the son of a man who left his family do? Does he do the same thing, and if so, why? Because he saw it done or because there is an evolutionary trend built within himself to do so? We can make cases evolutionarily for most human traits--we can build up reasons upon reasons about the way the people act and for what reasons, all of which will fit neatly in a basic and broad vision of evolution.
But as said at first, we will see none of it. And it never sees us passed the first, brief contact when the genes first meet and greet.
Which again meets evolution only for a second and then moves on again.
The only counter to this is when we think about the traits that we as humans have that are not inherently passed down within our genes but rather through our social interactions. The traits we pass on from generation to generation--our "family values". The things which keep people and families together or break them apart.
Which assumes that these things are taught and not just inherently within ourselves from the beginning. But who is to say that's true? Are butterflies taught by their parents to migrate thousands of miles from the top of our continent to the bottom? Are birds taught to lay their eggs in a nest and protect them? Are they together still because of things passed on through generations?
Similarly, do we learn our social sets from the people around us or are they set within us already? What does the son of a man who left his family do? Does he do the same thing, and if so, why? Because he saw it done or because there is an evolutionary trend built within himself to do so? We can make cases evolutionarily for most human traits--we can build up reasons upon reasons about the way the people act and for what reasons, all of which will fit neatly in a basic and broad vision of evolution.
But as said at first, we will see none of it. And it never sees us passed the first, brief contact when the genes first meet and greet.