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2. Whereas individuals and groups of people have goals and purposes, humanity as a whole does not have a mind of it's own. Humanity is composed of single individuals and groups of people who have goals, aspirations, dreams, visions, values and purposes. My purpose today is to take care of my sick wife. This is not humanity's goal.
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I also think that goals necessitate voluntary interaction. Amazon shareholders may have goals, and some of them might be shared by Amazon workers, other investors and so on. But, say, the US cannot have any goals, as nobody (except for certain immigrants such as me) voluntarily "joined" the country; some people were just born here and never left, and they do not necessarily have to share any possible goals one could attribute to the nation. The Founding Fathers had goals; but Americans as a whole have never had and possibly cannot.
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1. DNA doesn't have a mind of it's own. We are "designed" by natural forces, such as natural selection, which is basically just physics. Things that can't live in a particular environment don't procreate as much. So, species have come and gone, depending on the environment.
2. Nature and DNA does not have goals, nature itself is not intentional, nature and DNA cannot make decisions or have purposes.
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Evolution is an effect, not an affect (an affect causes something, and an effect is the result of something, or a thing having something done to it). The only way evolution can be explained is to personify it in a sense, but it is not actually driving an agenda like perpetuating the existence of any beings. Evolution is not a causer of things, it is the result of things.
It is believed by geneticists that there was a genetic mutation that caused a bears fur to be white instead of brown. It was the result of a genetic "mistake" that caused that change. That bear had cubs, and some of those cubs also had the genetic "mistake" of white fur. Eventually, there were many bears with white fur. The bears who had the white fur and lived in the tundra and artic circle happened to have an evolutionary advantage because they blended in with the permanent snow pack that defined the region they lived in, while bears with the traditional brown or black colors lacked that camouflage and therefore they lacked the evolutionary advantage in snowy terrains. The whole of this was perpetuated simply by luck. It just happened to be a genetic mistake that caused the white fur, and it just happened to be lucky that some of those bears with the mutation lived in an environment dominated by white. Luck is not indicative of an agenda.
Polar bears were not made by evolution to be white. Evolution did not have an understanding of the environment of a certain species and how to best adapt that species to its environment. Evolution is the term used to describe a phenomenon that is the result of events that are caused by pure luck. Evolution drives nothing, instead, it is prior circumstances that drive evolution. But the only way to effectively describe evolution is to make it seem like evolution has a mind or an agenda that it does not actually have.
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