I think Colossions needs to learn a bit more about instincts and neurochemistry.
Rather, you need to understand that redunctionistic analysis, telling us what goes into the pudding, tells us nothing about how it got there.
And then you need to stop putting the cart before the horse. It is your blindness and willfulness of spirit that causes you to overlook the circularity of your answers. If it were in any other field of study, you would not engage in such circularity; nor would your teachers mark your paper with anything else but an “F”.
I did tell you why it got here: chance mutation.
The desire for [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse], [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] itself?
[bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] itself. The trap you are falling into is assuming that the desire for [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] exists independently of the desire for pleasurable stimuli when it does not.
I doubt very much that I have overlooked the substance of my own thread.
On the contrary, it is you who have yet to demonstrate which came first. Telling us they both came together does not fuse their separate aspects together: desire is desire, and event is event. The dichotomy is eternal. You have answered nothing.
As Jet Black later demonstrates, desire for pleasurable stimuli pre-exists in any organism with a sufficiently complex nervous system,
The only thing Jet Black is capable of demonstrating is his talent at creating circular statements. And your example here is yet another of such: telling us that a desire exists in a complex system is like telling us that a comuter exists at NASA. Profound.
Mutations do not occur from anything.
Let’s try and make it a little more simple for you: what mutated into what became desire?
Subjects of the evolutionary process do not have ANY conscience as to what they are evolving into
Then they cannot evolve conscience, and you defeat yourself.
You have to tell us how what was missing was found, and more importantly, how it was realised that it was found.
Already told you. Beneficial mutation. ..
All you have done is reassert your position. This is an old trick (with you it is accidental) that debaters use. You must instead defend you position: do not tell us that desire is beneficial for the preservation of us, we already know that. Tell us instead how desire itself arose as desire.
the urge to have [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] comes as a result of pleasure during sex being already there.
The pleasure is based upon the relief provided by the [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]. Such relief is based upon the desire for [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]. Such desire is based upon the anticipation of the relief.
You have said nothing. As usual.
What's so hard to understand?
You would benefit greatly in studying some logic.
I dunno...you'd think the [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] came first. Either way, God is responsible for it.
God is indeed responsible for this very central part of us. But the [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] came after the desire for it.
God put the desire for knowledge (“knowledge” used metaphorically to mean that which communes intimately with another person) inside us, and then as with all spiritual attributes, the flesh must mirror it. Thus the desire for carnal knowledge was irresistably a product of our spiritual substance.
Natural =/= No God.
As well as logic, you need to study some linguistics.
Natural is a-spiritual, not non-spiritual.
theistic evolutionist
Such a high-falutin term. Makes you sound important.
Tell us, if you were God, would you create a primordial soup, or perhaps something a little more to the point?
Or maybe the corollary question is better for you: “why would waiting around for a while to see what popped out, be desireable to a God for whom time does not exist?”
There is nothing to learn about that if you say that it explains how [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] or desire for [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] came into existence.
Sorry, but how am I to interprete that?
"There is no explanation for the existence [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] beyond my explanation, so if you offer a different explanation it must be false"…
So you’re now OK with “God did it”?
Of course, the incentive to have sex (and reproduce) doesn't solely rest on the ability to have a pleasurable [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]
This statement high-lights the fundamental difference that [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] plays in the constitution of the male, as distinct from the female. I have yet to hear of a male who [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] without pleasure and the anticipation of it.
.. I'm a theistic agnostic who uses the term 'God' to include all possible....er...possibilities of supernatural being/s or forces. But hey-I could be wrong.
You are.
(INTREPID) In the first post, you said that there is something called incentive in animals that would motivate for [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]. In the next post, you say that they dont have any conscience of what they are evolving into. Which also means that they lack the instinct for [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] when they are in a process of evolving. Or why they are evolving.
You contradict yourself.
Very well pointed out. They use words like “incentive” mischievously, crossing from the usual cognitive meaning, to a matter-of-fact meaning. This is one of the main ways they hood-wink themselves, and the public.
Well, natural selection selects based on procreation. Thus a desire to have more kids would be a beneficial desire and thus would stick around.
You’ve told us about the cart; now tell us how the horse got hitched up in front of it.
I can't believe this thread has already grown to 17 pages.
Sin always fights hard and long against the truth. That there is such a desire in the evolutionists to not suffer defeat (though such occurred at the outset of the thread, they providing nothing but circular answers), should perhaps tell you that man is more than matter and energy.
In a very simple example: "Evolution," "nature," or even a given member of this species didn't "know to do anything." The creatures with longer necks were able to reach the food, so they ate and lived to pass on their gene to their offspring.
So how did they eat before they had the gene? Use a ladder?
Long-neck genes and all. Meanwhile, the ones with the shorter necks died off,
Including the ones who were yet to evolve long necks.
not being able to feed themselves. "Nature" didn't need to "know" or "desire" anything at all. The "long-neck" gene continued to be passed on and evolve because that trait allowed them to reach food.
In other words: it exists, therefore it evolved. Redundant. Like rigging the data of a science prac to get to an already manifest result.
So, sex being the act of reproduction, the creatures that have more sex will reproduce more successfully.
Now tell us whether in their minds they were trying to preserve themselves, or whether it was because they felt frisky one Friday morning. Then tell us where the frisky and the realisation of such, came from.
Animals (in general or those within a given species) that enjoy sex more will inevitably have more sex and reproduce more.
You have a lot of gifts going to waste. You should be giving sex-education classes for youth programmes.
Those that enjoy it less will have it less, and reproduce less.
Riveting stuff.
Now specific to the [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]: the [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] is just a pleasurable reaction to a specific type of stimulation.
Now tell us how the pleasure itself came into being.
because desire isn't really a part of the evolutionary process (not at the biological level, anyway).
So you have non-biological desire for [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse]? Tell us how it feels.
(INTREPID) Whats the need to have sex when they did not have pleasure at the time they were not having any pleasure? Their needs to be some desire for sex that would motivate them to have sex. And that motivation is nothing but [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] and pleasure. If that did not exist when having sex, no animal would have sex.
Well summed up.
Natural selection is one of the mechanisms by which evolution occurs. How do you think they are contrary to each other? How could they be?
Natural selection is wrongly coined: it is rather “natural culling”. It culls the sports, the variants. It does not produce new information, but allows only the most suitable products of the existing gene-pool information, to continue on. You need to study some IT. And some Mendelian genetics.
If you think that evolution and natural selection are contrary to each other, then I do have to say, You don't understand the theory of evolution at all.
It is you who have no idea of the false utility you derive from what is simply one manifestation of the second law of thermodyamics. You would have us believe that cars with nice new paint jobs evolve because the ones with rust fall apart. Your whole doctrine is ‘post hoc ergo proper hoc’. Laughable.
Do you have any idea how other organisms reproduce sexually? Are egg-depositing female fish, and sperm-spreading male fish motivated by [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] and pleasure? You should also look into insect reproduction before making general claims for all animals.
And you should read the OP.
We are not concerned with those entities which reproduce without pleasure. What we are concerned with, is why pleasure in sex evolved, when we were doing quite well without it. Your examples militate against your own platform. 75% of life is a-sexual. And such life reproduces at far far greater rates than that which does so for pleasure.
pleasure and [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] do not need to be present to provide motivation.
Like saying that money does not need to provide wealth.
They do, and it does.
(Intrepid) “It is important know the fact that evolution and natural selection are not the same. But, they are contrary to each other”
Educate yourself. Making statements like this only indicates that you have no idea what you're talking about.. .
Rather, get your head into some real science, instead of the propoganda that you are indulging in.
Natural selection is actually natural culling: the gene pool is impoverished, not expanded.
No new information is added.
New cars do not evolve because old ones are junked. You have equated a negative with a positive, by virtue of your after-the-fact perspective. Redundancy.
(Intrepid) “Just answer, where did they get the thought that they need to have sex for their continuity of species.”
Not THOUGHTS, MOTIVATIONS maybe. Where do they get these motivations? INSTINCT.
I wish I had your talent for synonyms.
I'd like to point out, again, that plants reproduce sexually, so motivation or desire is definitely not needed for sexual reproduction.
Poof goes your ‘incentive’ for the evolution of sexual desire!