on evolution:  mutation according to need and design

that life has been evolving is something that virtually everyone will come to accept.  the real question is, by what process has life been evolving?  in particular, what is driving the direction of mutation, of gene changes in present and future generations? 

i believe the neo-darwinians are mistaken in their belief that mutation is governed purely by chance.  i believe mutation is according to need, is directed by need.  and the need causes the seed of an individual to mutate according to a preexisting design in the universe, in god.

i believe there's an as yet undiscovered system in each creature or organism which, responding to that creature’s environment, causes its seed to mutate in a direction that will bring a more secure and comfortable existence to its descendants.  its seed miraculously mutates in a direction that will continue over future generations to bring the descendants some very needed benefits.   

look at wings.  wings are a good example because the first wings to come into being were probably clumsy and imperfect and might therefore not have had a survival value and might even have diminished the survival ability of the animal.  yet perfect wings eventually evolved into existence in spite of this.  birds, who are descended from dinosaurs, evolved wings out of need.  some smaller dinosaurs were being chased and hunted by bigger dinosaurs, and those smaller dinosaurs needed to evolve wings as a safety solution, and their seed and later generations from that seed went through the necessary mutations for perfect wings to eventually evolve.  there was already a design, there were many designs for wings in the universe, in god.  once the environment created a sufficient need for wings, a design for wings was followed which guided the mutation and development of wings.

it's as if there's some hidden system in each living being that's asking the question, how can my seed change so that future generations of my descendants will have a more secure and comfortable existence in this world?  this hidden and presently undiscovered system then triggers its answers into concrete genetic mutations over many generations, and those mutations follow a preexisting design in the universe.

so first there's a need, and then the need induces mutations that follow a preexisting design in the universe, whether it's a design for wings, or whatever.  i believe what darwin called "survival of the fittest" is more like a fine tuning mechanism in the evolutionary process rather than the major tuning or major determinant of the direction of evolution.  explaining the major directions of evolution as the result of chance mutation which is then subject to "survival of the fittest" seems like such a dark vision of life to me.  i'd rather believe that life is mutating and evolving according to needs and preexisting designs in the universe, in god.

there are needs and designs in the universe for so many things.  wings for example are designs that are all over the universe on the numerous planets where life evolves.  wings are a design waiting to manifest and triggered by a practical need.  just as an oak seed contains the design of an oak tree which it sprouts and develops into,  so the earth is like a giant seed in god - we can call it godseed earth - and it is sprouting the only kinds of life in the only directions that it can, given all of the factors it is subject to. 

look at how fast bacteria and viruses are mutating into new strains of resistance against the medicines that modern medicine has been using against them.  the very speed and clever strategy of these mutations suggests that mutation is directed by need and by design much more than by chance.  all life on earth can be thought of as one being, and the unfriendly bacteria and viruses that have been afflicting us can be thought of as the immune response of that one being against our species which has destroyed and devastated so much life on godseed earth till now.

and what is the overall direction of the evolution of life on godseed earth?  i would like to think it is towards more awareness, and more kindness and gentleness.  look at blue whales for instance, they’re pretty aware and kind and gentle.  wouldn’t it be nice if our human brains are already physically evolved enough and all we need is some new programming in those amazing brains to become more aware and kind and gentle.
 

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