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[LostOne4Ever]

181. Again that is your belief

and nothing more.

I already gave you a couple of counterexamples where your "goal" fails. I can easily find more. Lions killing their cubs, when ants and humans go to war, spiders allowing themselves to get eaten, and so on.

Survival means surviving. By definition, all the things I listed do, in fact, contradict that. Again, evolution is not forward looking, it does not plan ahead, it does not allow traits to develop for specific purposes.

Turtle shells did not develop because the turtle wanted to be more protected from predators, but because of random genetic mutations. These mutations just happened to help protect the animal and that gave them an advantage in survival and fitness over their unshelled cousins. No goal was involved. It was not part of any pre-planned design. That is just the way things turned out.

Existential nihilism, simply means there is no inherent meaning in life. That we just exist. Choosing our own meaning is in fact perfectly allowable.

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The fact that there is something instead of nothing does not demonstrate that it is a dead end. Again, you are stating opinion as fact.