Every cell, virus, plant, or animal mutation or characteristic is explained by Natural Selection.

It’s almost like there is some motivation for it to make sure life exists and survives. But why do anything at all? If there is a God then it makes sense that it was put in place for life to exist but if there is no God then why don’t we just have a universe of non-living matter?

  • loveluvieah@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Because life couldn’t exist as we know it if there wasn’t an inherent desire to live. If living organisms didn’t have that inate drive to continue living, all species would become extinct before ever evolving.

    Though I don’t have any actual knowledge in this area so who knows if I’m right. Just my assumptions!

      • loveluvieah@lemmy.world
        1·
        9 months ago

        Now this is speculation on my part, but I assume that any organisms that didn’t have this innate drive randomly present in their biology, they died off, so all that’s left now are the organisms with this drive.

        So organisms that didn’t seek out reproduction at our earliest form of life, are dead and what remains are the organisms that randomly developed with this drive.

      • Fal@yiffit.netEnglish
        11·
        9 months ago

        It exists because we wouldn’t be here if it didn’t. That’s all there is to it really. You’re asking for an answer if “why”. Why did the earth form in the exact place that it did? Things are allowed to arise randomly, and natural selection isn’t an explanation for the begging of the universe