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Old 12-21-2024, 09:23 PM   #794 (permalink)
redpoint5
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Originally Posted by freebeard View Post
Well -- for one, evolution includes a fitness test; while engineering is driven by politics and money.
Zero things are exempt from the evolutionary fitness test. The other way to phrase it is that all things are participants in an evolutionary process (paraphrasing Gadd Sad).

It's this perspective I have that probably puts me at greatest odds with theists. Somehow I have managed to adopt philosophies that annoy everyone.
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