re: #1060 Emphasis

From time to time I post this message in the hope that everyone think about it.

“I think about evolution and creationism and I don’t find any difficulty in accepting both. Probably I am not as smart as all of those that are dogmatic in their beliefs. There are things that I would love for someone to explain to me. For example:

If the instinct for self-preservation is a predominant if not the predominant one in the animal world, why do the female of the species becomes pregnant? You would think that you make your life so much harder, especially if like in most examples the female is the one that has to raise them feed them and protect them. However, they appear to be imprinted with the need to carry out that function, even though it is obvious it affects them in a negative way. It would then seem that this drive is imprinted in them, like a computer program. The question then is who was the programmer?”

Organisms possess the genetic urge to produce copies of their genes (offspring). Those species that didn’t possess that urge died out of the gene pool very quickly, and individuals within the species that lack such an urge do not pass their genes along within the species. It’s a matter of simple environmental selection, and no intelligent purposive programmer is required.