Science, Creation & EvolutionMorality and evolutionismTuppence wrote that she's out of town until tuesday. I don't know where the others are. I have taken the liberty to put some emphasis on certain pieces of text. I have posted it to further emphasis in general our relations to other animals and - specifically - our relation to other apes. --------- Ok, new question: To start this off, let's look at a quote from www.dictionary.com: Emotion: Instinct: I am currently reading a book about evolutionary psychology in which is stated: Ok, we now have 3 quotes, and I'm going to base my response on these 3 responses. Emotions just 'pop up' as a response to situations and are - in my opinion - strong suggestions from our instincts (=the genes in our body that command us to do certain things, like eating, breathing, and producing offspring). If our instinct tell us to reproduce, our instincts stimulate 'falling in love.' If instincts tell us to eat, emotions tell us to 'get exited when you're hunting.' When your instinct tells you to breath, your emotions tell you to feel happy when you come up for air after diving for a while. When your instincts tell you to survive, your emotions create the feeling of extreme happiness when you have escaped from a burning building. Robert Wright is right when he says that "emotion are the executants of evolution." The emotions that 'pop up ' (instinctively) correspond with the evolutionary meaning of the event. If a child dies, you loose a 'vessel in which your genes could survive beyond your own body.'* Our response is of course sorrow. When someone prevents us from reaching a goal we have set for ourselves, we respond with anger and hatred. When our child is in trouble, we are troubled (because our method of transfering our genes is in trouble). When our child is happy, we feel happy, because there is no sign that our method of transfering our genes is in trouble. Our emotions really are the executants of evolution; they tell us what attitude we should have towards the current situation of important things. Research has shown that people from all nations around the world find it quite accepteable that their 80 year old father dies (and mourn for a while) but that the death of a child brings much more sadness. In evolutionary term: An old man has no reproductive capabilities, but a young man HAS! The same research has shown that parents mourn the most after the death of an adolescent. A new born child has (relatively) little importance. A child of 10 years old is getting ready to become fertile and the grief is greater! (But also because of the personal attachment to the child that has happened over time) An adolescent has reached the age that produces offspring, (The parental 'investment' is about to 'pay off' to say it in economic terms) The grief is GREATEST in ALL societies around the world! All people share maximum grief when an adolescent dies! The amount of grief and mourning decreases when productivity ratings drop with age. The grief for the death of our grandparents is much lower then the grief for the death of our children or grandchildren. Emotions express in these cases how important the dead people have been in en EVOLUTIONARY way to the survivors. I am not saying that instincts and emotions are the same thing, but they are closely related as you might have picked up from this text. *The purpose of us as individual beings is merely 'being a vessel' for our genes. If you want to look at it from an extremely objective point of view: Our lives don't matter; What matters is that our genes continue to exist. Even self-sacrifise is in the best interest of the species if 1 suicidal person can save the life of its brothers and sisters, because these siblings have almost the same genes. If you want further explanation about 'suicidal genes' just ask. |
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