Thoughts on evolution
Evolution is (save for the crazies) an established theory and in fact can be seen in actual operation. Indeed, the basic mechanism—variation in DNA due to mutations and combinations, with variations better adapted to the current environment crowding out those less suited—is so logical and simple that one wonders how it can be questioned.
Still, it’s a cold sort of picture: the process continues forever and blindly, creating new DNA combinations followed by the inevitable and unavoidable testing of those combinations against the rock of reality. For example, the millions of people who die from disease and the women dying in childbirth are just the process working away. The process in time—lots of time—works out exquisite answers, but at what a cost in failed variations. And all this is not, from a rational perspective, for a higher end or noble purpose or with any sort of goal. It’s simply an endless process of duplication, variation, and testing. That’s in effect what life does: reproduce, vary, and try to live.
