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Originally Posted by Chester
The idea that inert matter forms itself such that not only does it replicate itself but that it WANTS to replicate itself, is a phenomenon that would seem to require more answer than, "chance plus time". I get the replication part as we see that in lifeless chemical processes. I do not get the striving, the desire, the need to replicate itself. And hear I am not talking about humans, I am talking about some of the most basic forms of life.
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In fact, that would seem to me to be the basic characteristic most favored by the process of evolution.
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Originally Posted by Chester
I mean, why does a little one-cell organism care enough to grow a little tail to chase food? If that is one of the basic differences between a chunk of matter that is alive and a chunk that is dead, then where did this "caring" come from? It is a very great mystery that is not so easily dismissed as arising from chance.
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I'm not sure that you really understand what the theory of evolution is. Organisms didn't develop tails because they wanted to chase food. Tails were a genetic mutation which just by dumb luck happened to be useful for chasing food, thereby making those individual organisms more successful, and thereby passing their mutant tail genes on and on.