human being are nit the pinnacle of evolution but simply anotherspecies explain
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Evolution has no direction and no goal of "progress" or getting to the "pinnacle". Evolutionary processes shaped all life on Earth and resulted in its extraordinary diversity of life. The best representation of this diversity is with very bushy, gigantic phylogenetic trees, or even circular representations that help encompass its diversity
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I have been caught up in many conversations over the summer, at science-religion conferences and meetings with theologians, where the future of human evolution has come up. Almost invariably in these conversations, someone expresses the opinion – as though everyone there takes it for granted – that humans are the end point, the goal, or the pinnacle of evolution. A related viewpoint that I’ve heard said is that we humans have managed to extricate ourselves from the evolutionary struggle: our technological prowess has enabled us to raise ourselves above the survival of the fittest; we are, quite simply, the fittest. And another related viewpoint is that we humans were somehow the inevitable outcome of the evolutionary process. The final related viewpoint (the most explicitly theological) says that God directed evolution so that humans would be the end result. All of this is related to a much-debated idea in theology, of ‘human uniqueness’.
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