What is the end of evolution?

[OneFootInTheGrave]

Well I have been toying with this idea for a while already... every process has some sort of end, you can say it is infinite,still it appears to me that at the end evolution creates god... a being/beings or mind/s that can know everything about the universe and therefore can control the universe...

why?

well simply that our (and we are simply the matter in the universe no less no more) knowledge about it grows exponentionally, and in the case that this process fails in our case (nuclear war, etc...) there must be infinite number of other chances elsewhere in infinite time/space for this process to complete - therefore it is inevitable - creation of God is the end of evolution.

What do you think, what is the end of evolution?

[Lord Merciless]

Biotech community is working hard on directed evolution. The methods are still very primitive and not much better than the nature can offer. But if Department of Energy's (DOE) Genome to Life project succeeds....

[Lincoln]

The end is that only the fittest will survive. Everything will be destroyed except the creator of evolution.

[Soul Survivor]

well with infinite time or infinite space (matter that is) god must already exist

[loinburger]

It'll probably end with good old fashioned entropy. When the suns have all burned out there won't be any more life, so evolution will have come to an end.

[Mr. President]

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[Lord Merciless]

The end comes when all protons have decayed into more elemental particles, when all black holes have dissipated their energies, and when all of the Universe falls to a constant temperature.

[reds4ever]

Re: What is the end of evolution?

Originally posted by OneFootInTheGrave
Well I have been toying with this idea for a while already... every process has some sort of end, you can say it is infinite,still it appears to me that at the end evolution creates god... a being/beings or mind/s that can know everything about the universe and therefore can control the universe...

why?

well simply that our (and we are simply the matter in the universe no less no more) knowledge about it grows exponentionally, and in the case that this process fails in our case (nuclear war, etc...) there must be infinite number of other chances elsewhere in infinite time/space for this process to complete - therefore it is inevitable - creation of God is the end of evolution.

What do you think, what is the end of evolution?

Evolution doesn't strive to create anything, organisms merely adapt or die, it's not a 'process' that needs to 'complete'

[Drogue]

I'm guessing it won't stop, but at some point maybe ethereal creatures will evolve, that is, those without substance or matter. As for Gods, I don't think anything will even be all knowing. Maybe almost all, but to get all is much much harder (impossible) than almost all. I point you to the Hitch Hikers Guide for guidance

[reds4ever]

Why evolve? when an organism reaches a certain level of technology (ie. us) the enviroment can be made to adapt to suite the organism

[mrmitchell]

That's a hard question there.

You see, if there's enough time before all the stars burn out, then a Godlike being might develop (and commit suicide after the Universe is dead, unless it can spawn new ones or something.)

If the stars burn out first then life dies. Black holes dissipate, stars dissolve, nebulas are too thin to form anything more. Planets, no longer in gravitational pull, are either sucked up by their stars in the process of star death or simply fade away. A quaint ending for a universe as succesful as ours, don't you think?

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by reds4ever
Why evolve? when an organism reaches a certain level of technology (ie. us) the enviroment can be made to adapt to suite the organism

It is still technological. We are just substituting biological adaption for technical adaption. Our technology is continuing to evolve, as is our use of the environment.

[St Leo]

Well, that wouldn't be evolution proper, would it. You could call it metaevolution, but it's not the same thing.

[loinburger]

Sure it is -- the term "evolution" is applied to more than biology...

[Sava]

Evolution doesn't necessarily have a plan or path. Life just adapts to its environment. Human beings seem to be a very unique type of life form. Intelligence and the use of tools/technology is how humans survived the harsh environments, despite not having any real physical prowess or advantage over other, more dangerous predatory creatures. Humans are a great improbability in the possibilities of life.

To answer the question... evolution doesn't have an end. Life will just adapt to survive in the environment it lives in. On our planet, all life will end sometime. At the latest, when the sun turns into a red giant. Humans might be able to expand and survive on another environment. But even human beings will change over time... whether it be naturally, or otherwise.