Evolution and Economics (Evolution 2)
Survival of the Fittest in Everyday Life
The theory of evolution is based on a few primary tenets.
1) There is no God, and everything that is is a result of natural processes.
2) Mutations occur that introduce new beneficial information.
3) Natural selection weeds out the lower species.
This is a very simplistic synopsis, of course. But this is the basic starting ground for a description of the so-called evolutionary process.
What I have observed is that there are very few people who really truly believe in evolution. In fact, many of the strongest opponents of evolution do not really believe it in a way that affects their entire life. More specifically, I see evolution missing from modern economics.
Let us expand on the principle we observe called natural selection. Natural selection is the process whereby better-equipped life forms are separated from the less-equipped. It is nature at work, and we see it everywhere. Collies do not survive in the arctic because they are not well equipped for such an environment. Polar Bears, on the other hand, survive quite well.
According to the theory of evolution, it was this natural process, also called “The Survival of the Fittest,” that isolated and solidified the beneficial mutations into new creatures. These new life forms were better-equipped than the former, and thus survived in a superior manner. Any negative mutations or poorly-equipped life forms were eliminated.
Now, one who truly believes in evolution understands this process to be good. And not merely good, but absolutely essential to life itself. For the progress of species to continue (and it must), Natural Selection must be constantly eliminating the poorer life forms. This insures that negative mutations are not perpetuated.
However, none of us really believes in evolution.
In recent months, the USA has been faced with economic crisis. We have seen a major decline in our stock market, in our housing industry, and more specifically, the crash of several major banks. Much of this revolves around our addiction to credit. Mortgages, double mortgages, and debt-collateralized loans have thrown us into a mess.
Our government recently decided to “bail-out” two major companies who were faced with bankruptcy.
We gave money to those who could not pay their mortgages. What about those people who HAVE paid their mortgages? We have bailed out the companies who have been in bad business and it has come back to bite them. What about those companies that are soundly operated? What have we done?
We do not believe in evolution. We do not really believe in the continued progression of our own species. Natural Selection would have bankrupted the companies who were ill-equipped; it would have killed those unable to pay their mortgages; it would have broken the country that lives on money it doesn't have. Natural Selection would have advanced those better-equipped. It would have weeded out the weakest of our species and retained the more fit. Survival of the Fittest would have insured our continued evolution.
But evolution is not true. None of us believes it. We like to talk about it, for it allows us to ignore God. But when the press comes, deep down, we all know that man is not the result of a natural process. Man is special, completely unique and different from all other creation. The survival of mankind is not a step of the evolutionary process; it is the act of God. We have a responsibility to our own kind, not because we happen to be the highest life form right now, but because we are spiritual beings, made in the image of God.
Survival of the Fittest in Everyday Life
The theory of evolution is based on a few primary tenets.
1) There is no God, and everything that is is a result of natural processes.
2) Mutations occur that introduce new beneficial information.
3) Natural selection weeds out the lower species.
This is a very simplistic synopsis, of course. But this is the basic starting ground for a description of the so-called evolutionary process.
What I have observed is that there are very few people who really truly believe in evolution. In fact, many of the strongest opponents of evolution do not really believe it in a way that affects their entire life. More specifically, I see evolution missing from modern economics.
Let us expand on the principle we observe called natural selection. Natural selection is the process whereby better-equipped life forms are separated from the less-equipped. It is nature at work, and we see it everywhere. Collies do not survive in the arctic because they are not well equipped for such an environment. Polar Bears, on the other hand, survive quite well.
According to the theory of evolution, it was this natural process, also called “The Survival of the Fittest,” that isolated and solidified the beneficial mutations into new creatures. These new life forms were better-equipped than the former, and thus survived in a superior manner. Any negative mutations or poorly-equipped life forms were eliminated.
Now, one who truly believes in evolution understands this process to be good. And not merely good, but absolutely essential to life itself. For the progress of species to continue (and it must), Natural Selection must be constantly eliminating the poorer life forms. This insures that negative mutations are not perpetuated.
However, none of us really believes in evolution.
In recent months, the USA has been faced with economic crisis. We have seen a major decline in our stock market, in our housing industry, and more specifically, the crash of several major banks. Much of this revolves around our addiction to credit. Mortgages, double mortgages, and debt-collateralized loans have thrown us into a mess.
Our government recently decided to “bail-out” two major companies who were faced with bankruptcy.
We gave money to those who could not pay their mortgages. What about those people who HAVE paid their mortgages? We have bailed out the companies who have been in bad business and it has come back to bite them. What about those companies that are soundly operated? What have we done?
We do not believe in evolution. We do not really believe in the continued progression of our own species. Natural Selection would have bankrupted the companies who were ill-equipped; it would have killed those unable to pay their mortgages; it would have broken the country that lives on money it doesn't have. Natural Selection would have advanced those better-equipped. It would have weeded out the weakest of our species and retained the more fit. Survival of the Fittest would have insured our continued evolution.
But evolution is not true. None of us believes it. We like to talk about it, for it allows us to ignore God. But when the press comes, deep down, we all know that man is not the result of a natural process. Man is special, completely unique and different from all other creation. The survival of mankind is not a step of the evolutionary process; it is the act of God. We have a responsibility to our own kind, not because we happen to be the highest life form right now, but because we are spiritual beings, made in the image of God.
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