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Ed Y.'s avatar

Evolution has a major elephant in the room that it is ignoring: abiogenesis. Life arising from non-living matter is pretty much impossible. The odds of even an amino acid spontaneously being created is infinitely small, let alone a cell. Mathematically speaking, it is zero. But even ignoring the massive problem that is the origin of life, the fossil records do not support Darwinian evolution. Huge numbers of fossils, many in the Cambrian explosion, appear without the dozens or hundreds or thousands of variants that would have superseded the final complex finished form.

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Devils advocate… The emergence of non-zero sum solutions arise because cooperation and coordinated entities can defeat un or less-coordinated ones. IOW, competition between entities is the driving force for cooperation among entities. But the better organized more complex organizations are themselves the ones that create the power of these various existential risks. A village or town could never have made nuclear weapons, computers, or an industrial economy.

This is the dilemma of progress. With higher level, better coordinated NZS organizations we get not just more power to solve problems, but also more power to generate problems.

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