I still don’t see how the charity and the compassion that is in the world today fits in with Darwinian evolution and survival of the fittest. How is it beneficial for me to send my hard earned money to someone on the other side of the world to help them out? If anything it is unfavorable for me to give up something that will help me to better survive. Dawkins states that it is a mistake made by evolution. But isn’t the whole point of evolution is that mistakes that are not advantageous are removed from the gene pool because of that very reason.
I think, if the evolutionary theory is correct, that we, humans that is, are done with the evolutionary process on a large scale. Our behaviors and consciousnesses are no longer shaped by evolution but rather by the society around us. We have come to the point that we are able to fabricate so many things that can help us survive that we no longer need to evolve to extend out survivability. Fitness is not longer what it used to be. You no longer have to be the strongest but rather the smartest to survive.
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