Personally if I was teaching a class on evolution I would never use this word "adapt", becasue it is misleading.
A better way to explain evolution:
-Organism's DNA can randomly change into most anything.
-What's good, survived, and is only a small fraction of what DNA can mutate into.
Let's say one of your sperm's DNA was altered in a way that when you produced a child, he or she was sexually attracted to rocks.
This child goes around humping rocks of course, but more importantly they are not have sex with other people and are not passing on their genes. Their liniage dies out right away.
Another way to explain evolution of life would be to say:
Think of a factory that takes random raw materials and puts them together. 99.9% or more of the time you get random blobs of shit that are useless, but very rarely now and then you get something in a shape of a spoon or something that's actually useful.
I think the way people exlpain evolution is usually not very strait forward and is the reason why so many people don't get it.
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On another note, I think a lot of people just want to believe in a higher power and afterlife despite the fact that they thoroughly understand evolution.
This could be because it's comforting or because it's merely genetic and the reason so many people are religious is because the religious mind has an evolutionary advantage.
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Personally if I was teaching a class on evolution I would never use this word "adapt", becasue it is misleading.
A better way to explain evolution:
-Organism's DNA can randomly change into most anything.
-What's good, survived, and is only a small fraction of what DNA can mutate into.
Let's say one of your sperm's DNA was altered in a way that when you produced a child, he or she was sexually attracted to rocks.
This child goes around humping rocks of course, but more importantly they are not have sex with other people and are not passing on their genes. Their liniage dies out right away.
Another way to explain evolution of life would be to say:
Think of a factory that takes random raw materials and puts them together. 99.9% or more of the time you get random blobs of shit that are useless, but very rarely now and then you get something in a shape of a spoon or something that's actually useful.
I think the way people exlpain evolution is usually not very strait forward and is the reason why so many people don't get it.
-On another note, I think a lot of people just want to believe in a higher power and afterlife despite the fact that they thoroughly understand evolution.
This could be because it's comforting or because it's merely genetic and the reason so many people are religious is because the religious mind has an evolutionary advantage.