Warden_of_the_Storm
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The whole thing is that if I become familiar with certain selection pressures, I become familiar with selection pressures like them - how can I believe that without hoping that "Evolution" will at least in part be something "tangible"?
It's not possible.
Say I learn to swim in shallow water, I learn to see water at a distance, I can walk at length to go from the creek to the lake - these things all hinge on adapting to water in its different expressions - if I had to adapt swimming in shallow water and seeing water at a distance and walking at length from the creek to the lake all at the same time, I would never get there: water at a distance would be confused with shallow water, shallow water would be confused with water at a distance -- the whole structure would break down.
Alternatively, I can believe there are many dimensions to aspects of my selection pressures - such that I cohere a progressive response to them. Jesus didn't go straight to the cross, He had to get help - at some point we are all going to need to get help from God, with our adaptations, there are just too many selection pressures working against us, all the time, to try and manually develop a response that agrees with where those selection pressures are going to have taken us.
I don't want to confuse you with philosophy, but there is something to be said for the value philosophy places on wisdom, despite what the current trend of "thinking" actually is - it is a lesson "Evolution" is going to have to learn at some point, very soon (I would argue) - from there you can make all the moral judgments it takes to keep Evolution viable. And that is where I think your remark that "Evolution" is not tangible, fails - if Evolution is not tangible, neither is it "viable".
Science works by subjugating elements of its ornamentation to tests of validity - I have done this, with the concept of the throwback, which opens a window to familiarity and from familiarity, I have confirmed that the speed of what is attempted, is governed by the enormity of what it is believed can be responded to, all within the grounds flourishing more or less successfully -- what I need from you is an understanding, that this is not all for nothing, God gives "Evolutional" strength to some and "Creative" strength to others and as stewards of the difference, we must work out what is most Attractive - we will be judged by how well we do this, for the good of what God presumes to rule over, in this way. I simply cannot and will not forsake that it is more God's doing than mine, for that which is coming and not yet merely manifest for self-satisfying reasons.
It is not much of a leap, from understanding that familiarity breeds appreciation, to having the compassion to nourish that familiarity, until it is strong (and hence, most survivable).
Evolution has nothing to do with philosophy, it's purely a biological process in reaction to environmental pressures on a population of animals. That's it.
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