[MD] Social level for humans only

[Platt Holden]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:43 AM, Horse <horse at darkstar.uk.net> wrote:

>  Hi Krim
>
>
> Absolutely. Humans are what they are through the same processes of
> evolution and adaptation as applied to all forms of life on the planet. We
> are not to be 'privileged' because we are created in 'His' image or favoured
> because we we can create nifty digital watches. Everything about man and
> animals is equally from a natural cause.
> Humans have their own type of biological and social uniqueness as do other
> members of the Animal kingdom and in particular areas there is a further
> qualitative uniqueness of intellect. This is not due to supernatural
> intervention but a variant of adaptation and natural selection. But I do
> believe that intellect is the route to Music and Art.
>

No doubt Pirsig would agree that evolution is not due to "supernatural
intervention." But, his questions still haunt conventional evolutionists.
"But why do the fittest survive?" Followed up by,  "Why, for example, why
should a group of simple, stable compounds of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and
nitrogen struggle for billions of years to organize themselves into a
professor of chemistry? What's the motive?" (Lila, 11)

Until Pirsig's questions are answered other than by his theory of a moral
imperative, the conventional  explanation of evolution remains incomplete..

Platt