Originally posted by josephw
Evolution began somewhere in time.
At it's beginning the elements for life began to organise.
The conditions for the organisation of those elements into life had to be, logically speaking in my opinion, exact. You may not agree.
Why, then, is nature in a state of violent upheaval?
What I'm attempting to do is to juxtapose two concepts. The one being, g of life forms with the conflict that exists in nature, and especially between man and man.
Why do you believe that the idea of evolution carries with it the idea that life should be in some sort of harmonious balance?
Natural selection is based on the idea that life is a never-ending competition where various species (actually the individuals making up each species) are continually battling with other species and geo-physical forces to survive long enough to successfully reproduce. Nature cannot be anything else but a state of endless upheaval.
Even under a creationist model, nature is still made up of a myriad of species that must prey on other species, and avoid predation in order to survive.
I guess this does create a certain harmony -- if the hawks catch all the mice, the mice become extinct. If the all the mice evade the hawks, the hawk becomes extinct. Usually, some sort of equilibrium emerges where the hawks are generally good enough to catch the weaker mice, and the mice are generally good enough to evade the weaker hawks.
Evolution
14 Sep '09 14:071 edit
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