Every cell, virus, plant, or animal mutation or characteristic is explained by Natural Selection.

It’s almost like there is some motivation for it to make sure life exists and survives. But why do anything at all? If there is a God then it makes sense that it was put in place for life to exist but if there is no God then why don’t we just have a universe of non-living matter?

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    9 months ago

    the idea that all living things want to survive

    Where does that want come from? Why is there a want?

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      9 months ago

      Natural selection, the beings that didn’t have that urge to survive didn’t reproduce and died 🤷

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        9 months ago

        that urge to survive

        Yeah, I know what Natural Selection is…I am asking why is there an urge…why does it exist at all?

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      9 months ago

      That was an unfitting characterization.

      Natural Selection does not care about wants. Natural Selection is the inherent and consequential process of selection.

      Wants and reproduction are properties that influence natural selection - influences what is being naturally selected.

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      Because life couldn’t exist as we know it if there wasn’t an inherent desire to live. If living organisms didn’t have that inate drive to continue living, all species would become extinct before ever evolving.

      Though I don’t have any actual knowledge in this area so who knows if I’m right. Just my assumptions!