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joeldatroll

Why did the first organisms on Earth need to evolve? Correct me if Im wrong, but arent single celled organisms like bacteria able to live in all kinds of extreme environments? If they are then it doesnt seem like they would have any need to adapt at all. Couldn't they have just stayed the way they were and survived perfectly well?

 

hauptmann

Those bacteria evolved/adapted to be able to survive in those extreme conditions. No one knows what the first life form on earth was, so that makes this a hard question. Earth is always changing and has great variations in temperatures and enviornments and life naturally evolves to increase the rate survivability. Different areas with different conditions will need different adaptaion, thus giving rise to variations in life.

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joe's_enjoyment

the first "organism" was some kinda primordial soup that somehow sprouted life, i think

sleepischeap

evolution is an automatic process. theres no decision to evolve. creatures will evolve because some turn out better than others

FitShaced

Survival of the fittest my friend.they evolved so they could eat more food,or defend themselves from other critters.

 

greypoe

We don't know how or what started evolution. Evolution is just how we describe an event in nature. Why would something adapt over time?
Perhaps everything adapted to percieve the various energies.

joeldatroll

Does anyone see a connection to this question and the story of Adam and Eve from the Bible? How Adam and Eve could have lived happily in their garden utopia for all eternity without a worry and knowing no evil. But this wasnt good enough and something inside of them wanted more. They wanted knowlege. And they got their wish, they gained more and more knowlege, but it came at a price. They could no longer live in their perfect world. Evil and sin were now a part of their lives. The first organisms lived in a utopia comparable to the garden of eden. They could have just stayed their single celled selves and lived life without a care in the world. No care for competition, for self improvement, or anything of the sort. But again, that wasnt good enough, and just like Adam and Eve, they desired more. But in this case they desired more power. Power over eachother. The ability to survive "better" than the next organism. This hunger for power started the (apparently) endless process of evolution.

What is the goal of evolution anyways? To have evolved so many times that you dont need to evolve anymore? If that is true, it seems to me that it would be better to have never evolved at all. So does that make our existance merely a product of power and the desire for more?

If your going to comment on my idea, please be honest. Id rather know my ideas suck than think they are good.

greypoe

All things are in sin, or in syn.
What about the symbiotic relationships formed in nature.
The ants culture fungus. Ants cut and cultivate leaves to produce fungus for the tree. The fungus processes and channels nutrients for the tree. Fungus grows on the tree, and it even processes the ants body chemistry.

Data

It's the simple nature of the universe. The entire universe is far from settled, it constantly changes, so naturally we will too.

Darque Pervert

Adaptation and survival.

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