David Rives
The atheist Richard Dawkins once proposed a highly interesting idea. He said that he believed that ducks and hawks evolved quickly through a self-feeding mechanism of necessity. Let me explain what self-feeding is:
Okay, so an easy example of this would be an arms race or the space race. If someone develops an advanced weapon, then the opposition is forced to quickly do one of two things…
- they can create a more powerful weapon,
- or they could opt to create an effective anti-weapon, we could say a flack-jacket, anti-missile defenses, or an armored personnel carrier.
If I used the example of the space race, I would describe how competing countries wanted the tactical advantage and the credit for being the first to the moon, which set up a rapid cycle of human innovation and creation.
So, logically, it seems that self-feeding works. We should be able to apply the same pressures to biological evolution, imagining that a hawk and its prey could create a rapid spiral of development to outcompete the other.
One gets faster and better at evading, and the other gets keener eyes and sharper talons. The cycle continues.
Seems logical, right? Well, just because something makes sense doesn’t make it true, and I’m sure Dawkins would be quick to admit that.
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