Re: Death
- From: "rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx" <rja.carnegie@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 6 Aug 2005 16:25:20 -0700
Rick Merrill wrote:
> Seems to me both 'intelligent design' and 'evolution improves' fall
> short when you consider that all life dies.
>
> From the ID point of view, what is the "intent of death"?
>
> From the evolutionary point of view, why should old folk die instead of
> hanging on until a predator "gets 'im?"
Your body wears out, and you die. But that's okay, because as far as
evolution is concerned you are only a walking vehicle for genes. What
matters is that genes survive, and if you've done what you're supposed
to do - you had kids, or maybe your siblings did - then your genes will
still be walking around after you're dead, in new-built bodies with,
once in a very long while, evolutionary improvements. It's like a
snake shedding its old skin and wearing a new one - and your DNA is the
snake, and you're the skin.
.
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