Darwin Day musings on Anthropocentrism

Anthropocentrism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropocentrism

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Science & Technology

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• darwin
• day
• evolution
• creationism
• anthropocentrism
• cousinomacul

[technologysucks]

What really gives anthropocentrism the ass-wupping it deserves in my opinion is simply the study of animal societies and behavior, evolution aside. You see animals have their power struggles, fights over territory, courtship complications, troubles and triumphs, and they become less like different species and more like different cultures. You realize we're all just on this planet together, trying to survive in our respective nitches, and there is no center. It's awesome.

[CousinoMacul]

I couldn't agree more.

[BoozyBeggar]

I say 'anthrocentrism'; is your's the correct version?

[CousinoMacul]

Yes!

Check the Wikipedia link in the video description.

[SunBeamsan]

Hey, it's survival of the fittest. The reason why we are above all the animals, is because we are the supreme species.

Lions have claws, snakes have venomous fangs, gorillas have brute strength. We rely on our minds. We don't have any other special physical ability to be able to defend and survive. Nature has NO other value then the value we give it, and that value is based on our own rational self-interest.

[marmaloam]

bacteria and roaches are very good at adapting though

[marmaloam]

I lean anthropocentric. The human species is more valuable than any other one species on earth. Sure, we're animals, but because of our capacity for higher level thinking we're inventive and create new resources. The ability to create is not a subjective value, because it's easier to destroy than create. Humans aren't more evolved, and worms are good decomposers, so I realize It can even be argued worms are creators of soil. But worms are undeniably limited relative to our capacity for creation.

[aljimilah]

Go to DonExodus2 and watch his videos on mutating genes, he is a biologist and a genius, plus look to Dr. Ken Miller for facts on mutations as well. After ask yourself this question, although our d.n.a and r.n.a possess chromosomes that have the ability of change, how would you know you were changing if you were created to in the fist place, how could you call that evolving if the change had no benefit to your existence? Evolution has become obsolete for human beings. Watch the vids.

[CharlieBBoy12345]

Individual mutations may be by and large harmful, but they happen nonetheless. However, over a long period of time the effects of multiple mutations may turn out to be serendipitous.

[mtanti87]

Would it be more correct to say less complex to more complex organisms instead of lower to higher organisms? And that our brains are the most complex of all organisms? Come to think of it, less adaptable to more adaptable organisms would be better...

[HaleyMary]

Evolution doesn't only explain how people evolved from apes, but also all the elements from space. All the elements that people are made of hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen can also be found in stardust. :) Seems quite a few people seem anti evolution in the comment section of this video.

[HaleyMary]

Happy Darwin day. A bit late. :)

It is interesting when a person thinks about how evolution gets to people, but yet like you said the big bang and relativity theory, most of the population doesn't really get bothered by those theories. But, yet the big bang in a way has to do with evolution too, but on a larger scale cosmic level.