Evolution is not proven, but it is the theory most likely to be closer to the mechanisms of life. It is the only game in town - truth be told, the only contender - intelligent design - in the wake of any evidence or indications, is currently a pseudo-science.
Now, there is alot of evidence that gives evolution a strong basis. Geological data and fossils and the discovery of the DNA, the relationship and common origin of all life.
Here I want to introduce an indication that supports evolution some more - this time through analogy.
If you think about it, it's amazing the level of technology we have, given that it was made with bare hands. True, machines brought, and keep bringing, unmatched to manual labor presicion and minimal tolerances. But who made these machines? It was humans hands.
The thinest layer of a Pentium chip is 20 atoms across. A cascade of increasingly more complex and capable machines and progressively harnessing more powerful energy sources - pneumatic, thermodynamic and now electric - achieved this. It all started in the smith's workplace though, where he forged copper with his bare hands some thousands years ago. A mind grown to deceive more effectively (cope with it ad infinity - positive feedback), magnified the effects.
Everything - literally everything - that man has achieved with technology is a mirror of biological evolution. Rising orders of magnitude after the industrial and informational evolutions. Standardization is reproduction, accidents that led to brilliant inventions (eureka!) are mutations, inventions are adaptations (more educated societies brought the most inventions).
Man will match and surpass biological "intelligence". And all that through his hands and mind, originally evolved through social pressures, through thin air.
We could say that as the planets orbit the sun, emulating the atom structure with electrons orbiting the nucleus, similarly evolution is acting now the "body" of the evironment, as opposed to the biological body, through "rebelling" minds that naturally produce science and art - given that survival is almost warranted (society, healthcare). The "long arm of the gene" as Dawkins calls the concept.
Evolution is far from complete. What is consiousness and how it evolved? What is the substance that "feels" inside my brain? Even more, does life without brains feel or is it just biological machines?
However I believe with my analogy with the evolution of technology, that ultimately comes from evolution of intellect fueled by social competition, I put another little stone in evolution's pyramid.
Ok the tittle is a little off. This doesn't prove evolution but I argue this hypothesis has many chances of being true - which I am not qualified to test. Don't forget that the one part of this analogy - technological evolution - is proven.
Have your say.
Now, there is alot of evidence that gives evolution a strong basis. Geological data and fossils and the discovery of the DNA, the relationship and common origin of all life.
Here I want to introduce an indication that supports evolution some more - this time through analogy.
If you think about it, it's amazing the level of technology we have, given that it was made with bare hands. True, machines brought, and keep bringing, unmatched to manual labor presicion and minimal tolerances. But who made these machines? It was humans hands.
The thinest layer of a Pentium chip is 20 atoms across. A cascade of increasingly more complex and capable machines and progressively harnessing more powerful energy sources - pneumatic, thermodynamic and now electric - achieved this. It all started in the smith's workplace though, where he forged copper with his bare hands some thousands years ago. A mind grown to deceive more effectively (cope with it ad infinity - positive feedback), magnified the effects.
Everything - literally everything - that man has achieved with technology is a mirror of biological evolution. Rising orders of magnitude after the industrial and informational evolutions. Standardization is reproduction, accidents that led to brilliant inventions (eureka!) are mutations, inventions are adaptations (more educated societies brought the most inventions).
Man will match and surpass biological "intelligence". And all that through his hands and mind, originally evolved through social pressures, through thin air.
We could say that as the planets orbit the sun, emulating the atom structure with electrons orbiting the nucleus, similarly evolution is acting now the "body" of the evironment, as opposed to the biological body, through "rebelling" minds that naturally produce science and art - given that survival is almost warranted (society, healthcare). The "long arm of the gene" as Dawkins calls the concept.
Evolution is far from complete. What is consiousness and how it evolved? What is the substance that "feels" inside my brain? Even more, does life without brains feel or is it just biological machines?
However I believe with my analogy with the evolution of technology, that ultimately comes from evolution of intellect fueled by social competition, I put another little stone in evolution's pyramid.
Ok the tittle is a little off. This doesn't prove evolution but I argue this hypothesis has many chances of being true - which I am not qualified to test. Don't forget that the one part of this analogy - technological evolution - is proven.
Have your say.
