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> What I am a little dissatified about evolution theory, is
that, all it
> basically says is that we are simply what's left on earth,
a product
> of whatever process that was occurring. And yet we do
think and
> wonder-- which greatly bother the hell out of me. The
thoery gives no
> reason why should things not as simple crystals and no
more. What's so
> great about survival of fittest when you find no purpose
of being? Why
> do virus and bacteria reproduce themselves? There is
simply so
> physical compelling reasons for that. When you find no
nececity for
> some process to occur, there might be something missing in
our
> understanding. I wish biologists could find out why
sooner-- or at
> least find out the physical compelling reasons for the
reproduction.
> This alone bothers the hell out of me when I think about
it.

It isn't the job of scientists to ask "why?"--they only ask
how. It is up to philosophers and ethicists to probe the
"why" questions if they wish. You must realize that "why" is
a man-made concept
-- the universe has no concern for this concept.

To ask anything like "why?" is to get the answer "why not?"!
All big scientific theories and questions are in fact, in
essence, a tautology; this includes Darwin's Thy. of
Evolution, the Anthropic
Principle,and the Fermi Paradox as well as physical theories
like classical and quantum mechanics and more advanced ones.

My philosophy is not to ask why we are here and other such
questions, but to find those reasons within our own lives.
Not easy, but it can be done.                 ...tonyC
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