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In reply to the discussion: Maher to Stewart: ‘Drugs are good, religion is bad’ and Obama’s spirituality is ‘bullsh*t’ [View all]LostOne4Ever
(9,734 posts)HOWEVER, If a sudden earthquake raises the lower land and makes it higher...water indeed flows backwards. You can test this by putting water in a cookie pan and alternately lifting one side then the other to see it going forward and backward!
An advantage CAN advance achieving a goal. It does not necessarily do so. They can be wasted, or not used too. Advantages are not goals in and of themselves.
I disagree that evolution posits anything as good. Evolution lives in a world of moral nihilism. Sickle cell anemia is a deadly disease that kills thousands. Its hybrid genotype, however, makes an individual less affected by malaria. Is the sickle cell gene good? bad? Or both?
A species adapts to a warm climate, then a comet his the earth and breaks the land apart sending your land to an extremely northern latitude. Those adaptation have now become a negative. A species evolves an new trait that allows them to survive in a new area and out-compete the native fauna. Their survival is a negative to the other species.
You say its analogous to walking through doors assfirst, well that is exactly what a lot of extinct species did...and now they are gone.
Simply put:
