Every cell, virus, plant, or animal mutation or characteristic is explained by Natural Selection.

It’s almost like there is some motivation for it to make sure life exists and survives. But why do anything at all? If there is a God then it makes sense that it was put in place for life to exist but if there is no God then why don’t we just have a universe of non-living matter?

  • gruvbin@lemmy.worldOP
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    9 months ago

    the idea that all living things want to survive

    Where does that want come from? Why is there a want?

    • loveluvieah@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      9 months ago

      Because life couldn’t exist as we know it if there wasn’t an inherent desire to live. If living organisms didn’t have that inate drive to continue living, all species would become extinct before ever evolving.

      Though I don’t have any actual knowledge in this area so who knows if I’m right. Just my assumptions!

      • gruvbin@lemmy.worldOP
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        0
        ·
        9 months ago

        inate drive to continue living

        Yeah, but why does that innate drive exist? That is what I am getting at.

        • Fal@yiffit.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          0
          ·
          9 months ago

          It exists because we wouldn’t be here if it didn’t. That’s all there is to it really. You’re asking for an answer if “why”. Why did the earth form in the exact place that it did? Things are allowed to arise randomly, and natural selection isn’t an explanation for the begging of the universe

    • Kissaki@feddit.de
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      edit-2
      9 months ago

      That was an unfitting characterization.

      Natural Selection does not care about wants. Natural Selection is the inherent and consequential process of selection.

      Wants and reproduction are properties that influence natural selection - what is being naturally selected.

    • Noodle07@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      0
      ·
      9 months ago

      Natural selection, the beings that didn’t have that urge to survive didn’t reproduce and died 🤷