Is A Life An Evolutionary Examination And If So, Excluding The Obvious, What Are Our Individual Prospects Of A Pass?

[Colmc54]

So you have children. That could be an evolutionary failure for all you know. I never did have biological issue but what if I did something that contributed to our survival as a species later on?
Unlikely for me, but is it our unnatural concern for the propagation of our own genetic legacy and not our ability to think beyond that concept to a more collectively beneficial alternative that, as we act like we have transcended evolution, might help us one day to avoid extinction?

[woofgang]

sorry I have no idea what you are on about.

[Mamyalynne]

It would surely depend on the criteria set for a pass mark in such an exam.

[Gavmacp]

42?

[DaisyNonna]

What is unnatural ?

[Colmc54]

I think there has never been a better time to reject the procreative justification for human existence. What's so challenging about that when in the new reality there are so many other ways, big and small, to make your life mean something, even in an evolutionarily significant way.

That's what I was suggesting.

[woofgang]

nope.....tell the pixies to explain it more clearly.

[RATTER15]

What The Funicular?

[Gavmacp]

Possibly 63? But not sure!

[Mamyalynne]

You don't need to have added to the population to have left a legacy or improved the world we occupy, indeed many people have done just that.

However it isn't a case of one or the other - both work hand in hand.

[EDDIE51]

This is the second question today from Colmc54 that seems to be full of the excreta of the male bovine .

[Mamyalynne]

I don't see any need to be insulting Eddie, one could ignore.

[scorpiojo]

What is //our unnatural concern for the propagation of our own genetic legacy//?

[Gavmacp]

Mamy, on this one I'm with Eddie!

[Mamyalynne]

Sorry about that, cannot see an excuse for rudeness however one dresses it up.

[EDDIE51]

What are you on Colmc, got any to spare?
Is this about giving up sex ? Are you my Mrs in disguise?

[EDDIE51]

Mamyalynne. I have tried hard understand this but it just does not make sense .
I think it is a wind up !

[Canary42]

An intriguing question Colmc54. Our scientific development has indeed interfered with natural evolution as we understand it where prolific procreation ensures the continuity of the species. Such proliferation is now becoming a threat to our survival so we must constrain it. However, our scientific development has also become a threat to our survival, so we have a dilemma really. Someone famous once said human survival will be a race between scientific and moral advances (or something similar) and at the moment the latter is losing the race.

[baza]

It sounds like a wind up, shall I get my kite ?

[Mamyalynne]

Well I suppose the workings of kites count as science but maybe a new thread rather than this one ?

[Old_Geezer]

It may be an intriguing question, but it's difficult to tell as I can't make head nor tail of it.

No one transcends evolution. It has nothing to do with what be think, it is the process of change that goes on regardless. Life only means something if you assign a meaning to it. And then that's only your interpretation. Procreation is necessary for a species' survival. Nothing relevant cares if a particular species doesn't continue.

http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sleeping-sickness-parasite-may-become-extinct-due-asexual-reproduction