I'm 25 years old and I am lost

Re:I'm 25 years old and I am lost by code4life on Thursday August 14, 2014 @12:32PM (#8178259)

To be fair, if you believe in evolution, thinking of things in terms of improvement is very subjective. Evolution isn't selecting for improvement, it's selecting for survival, which may or may not be correlated with your vision of improvement. Think of cockroaches.

From a christian perspective, the natural discontent stems from the fallen nature of man. You're worldly accomplishments will never be able to satisfy that discontentment, as the two areas are unrelated.

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Re:I'm 25 years old and I am lost by jcromartie on Thursday August 14, 2014 @01:44PM (#8178635)

So many straw men here...

Nobody is saying that evolution is selecting for some nebulous sense of "improvement." Reproductive success leads to traits being passed on to successive generations, and general survival is merely one precondition to reproduction. The human impulse to jockey for status is a reproductive strategy.

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