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what it all boils down to is these creeps hate and fear Human creativity. Elites like predictability. Unpredictability scares them. That's why all of their scientific views are Gradualist, and Darwinian Evolution is Gradualist. People on Youtube today, such as Breadtube Atheists and Hardcore Metal Atheists who come out in defense of feminism and science against pro-male advocates, are big fans of Dawkins. The discussion today devolves down into "Either you are tin-foil hat, irrational believer in a Creator or you believe in Darwinian Evolution."

But this dialectic ignores the fact that there were other, competing, theories of evolution based on reason at the same time as Darwin, but Darwin was promoted above all of the others because of his Entropic, Gradualist view and because of his connection to British high society. In the Gradualist view, random mutation alone provides for all of the genetic diversity so it takes millions of years for speciation to occur. Then, out of that genetic diversity, Natural Selection whittles it all down to less genetic diversity over time due to genotypes being selected out. It is a very Entropic view and mirrors the Thermodynamic view of available energy decreasing over time in a closed system where the entire Universe is treated like your gas tank. Such a big assumption. As opposed to an Open System with abundant and new energy always coming in to it.

The upshot in this Gradualist view of Evolution is that, since it takes millions of years for new species to form, mankind's industrial and growth activity will reduce this species diversity too quickly in comparison for the time it takes for new species to form, so it provides endless opportunity for fearmongers to come in and scare people about "impending doom" and the destruction of fishing economies, agriculture, and so on from human activity. Species Diversity WILL come back, but because it will take millions of years according to Darwinian logic, it won't be in time for us to replenish our fishes, forests, and the things of Nature that we use to survive.

But this is not what's actually happening out there in the field. Under-posted and buried science stories appear all the time about how animal and plant species are adapting quickly to the presence of Human infrastructure. Even new species are branching off. Quickly too. Hybrids, and so on. And Humans are increasing biodiversity all the time and re-greening deserts. But these stories are buried down the Orwellian memory hole.

Contrast the Darwinian Accidentalist view to the Vernadsky-ian view of Evolution, where Mankind is a part of Nature in a sum-totality, that forms the Biosphere. And as mankind gets more intelligent and begins to intelligently act on the natural world and re-form it, it will eventually evolve into the Noosphere, or Thought-sphere, where Human creativity will build a bigger world and maybe even invent new species. You can imagine Humans terraforming Mars, Venus, and maybe even building new worlds from scratch, by smashing asteroids together or something, and engineering new species to evolve on them. The possibilities are endless because Human Creativity is not a quantity that can be predicted or quantified on a computer algorithm. The only factor that IS close to a quantifiable aspect of Human creativity is Population: As population grows, the total number of creative individuals per amount of a given space increases. Thus, the amount of creative processing power in that space increases. Think of it like a Quad Core is more powerful than a Duo Core, and an 8-core motherboard is more powerful than both; you pack more chips in, you have more processing power. And the speed of each core can be likened to population density, which is a networked intelligence (the closer humans live together, the more data and idea sharing there is between people). This is why China is smarter. Not because Chinese, as individuals, have a higher inborn racial IQ as the racists claim, but because they have a whole bunch of cities that are each bigger than New York City.

When a human population has a greater size (more cores) and a greater networked intelligence (density), and thus a faster creative processing speed, it figures out faster how to produce workarounds and solutions to problems of energy and environment. What the DeGrowthers perjoratively refer to as the "technological fix." When you read Lefty blogs, you almost get the sense that they make "technological fix" have as bad of a connotation as, say, "rape" or "toxic masculinity." Pouty, preachy Feminists and Breadtuber type people almost lump "technological fix" as if its Male and therefore BAD. Notice that? It's because Feminism and Leftism today has been hijacked and infiltrated by Darwinism (it used to not be). Because it's become Establishment, it has gotten married to Academia, which in turn means it's married to Darwinism. And Darwinism is a Gradualist, accidentalist, view that hates Human Creativity because Human Creativity represents an unpredictable, "black swan" event in projections of the future.

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