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Is learning counter-evolutionary?

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People who are educated also live longer are healthier and become more successful.

Taking your reasoning, evolution may just as well evolve an upperclass of rulers, and a lower class of industrial drones. I'll be happy to take my place with the rulers, while you produce my car for me.
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Somewhat ontopic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAYnc_-ddlw
 
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It's downloading at 0.001 KB/s, and I did forward the port. Ok, nm, it's good now, about 25 KB/s.
It should speed up within a few minutes. I got arround 400KB/s when I downloaded it a few hours ago. If not you many want to check your settings and changing both the upload and download limit to unlimited.
 
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Because more children is not necessarily an advantage. [...]

More children, more mutations. Isn't that what evolution is all about?

You seem to be arguing for education as though that can save something that hasn't adapted. No matter how much you tell a cat that it needs to swim, it is going to drown.
 
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More children, more mutations. Isn't that what evolution is all about?

You seem to be arguing for education as though that can save something that hasn't adapted. No matter how much you tell a cat that it needs to swim, it is going to drown.
You seem to be thinking that there is a purpose in evolution. This is simply wrong. Evolution has no purpose per se it is simply an explanation of how life has got to where it is at the moment.

And BTW, cat's can swim.

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Evolution would suggest that propagation is the way forward, with new adaptations leading to more survival. Learning takes time away from propagation and studies have shown that the more educated they are the less likely they are to propagate. It would seem that to hold evolutionary beliefs one must give learning second priority, but that is on the assumption that evolution is correct... that assumption need not be made.


Evolution is not a life philosophy, it is a scientific explanation of the natural world. The development of our brains millions of years ago allowed humans to develop a culture and society. It is through this culture that humans were able to escape the bounds of evolutionary selection pressures and thus humans have the ability to rise above our biology(to an extent). We are not just driven biologically to spread our genes and survive, although these drives are very strong. We also have drives to pursue the truth, knowledge, art, aesthetics etc. It is sad that you have such a bleak view of humanity.

It is laughable that you think believing in evolution requires you to hold "propagation" as the sole purpose of life.
 
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