re: #668 Emphasis

As it seems we can’t get away from arguing about this subject I will again pose the question. With regards to the elections and the impact that creationism may have on the results, I find any link ludicrous.

“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?”

And I will once again post my answer; the same one I reply with every time you regurgitate this post:

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.

Given that some ancient animals genetically mutated to possess this urge, or others mutated so that they did not, the ones that lacked the urge died out without reproducing, and only the ones that possessed it remained in the gene pool - because only they reproduced and passed on their genes.

Evolution is responsible for the presence of the reproductive program, just as surely as it is responsible for the presence of the anatomical machinery by means of which such an urge is effected, and the genetic program that causes such machinery to manifest in the organism.