>>11310075>Because of the selection pressures that a lineage of apes were exposed to.The classical evolutionary mechanisms are severely incomplete, the implications of the proposed mechanisms are poorly understood by many, and don't explain the origin of species, particularly modern man. More on this later.
>Doesn’t get us to a “purpose”.How would you know? Prove it. Burden of proof falls on you.
>There is no teleology in biology.Ah yes, the old "chemical soup".
>Purpose is nonexistent except for things created with a specific behavior, role, or function intended for them by their creator.So if you design a machine to build another machine, that final machine is now apart from the chain of "purpose", because the machine which made it had no such conceptions.
>Evolution has no intentProve it.
This is the core of the matter. Now think for a moment, you have two organisms. One is blind and just incurs "random mutation" and selection and all the rest. The other is subject to these things, but it has embedded, low level logic, tuned over millennia, to determine how it should bias future changes. What sort of problem needs to be solved in the present environment, and which strategies maximize the probability it will have the means to adapt and reach this end state. It would seem to me the latter, with this additional layer of logic, has a massive advantage.
Modern day of course we know mutations aren't random. DNA has characteristics of a fractal antenna. The composition of a sequence of DNA makes some portions more vulnerable to damage and various errors than others. The placement of histones and the coiling behavior, temporally and spatially, influences mutation probability. The logic used during formation of the zygote plays a role.
You have no basis to reject an embedded plan or purpose, on any level, and from any source. Whether it's more on our scale, or something embedded in the logic that drives the physics of our universe.
