THE DOG CHASES THE TAIL

Evolution is a dog chasing its tail.

Humans do not do well in the natural world. That is precisely the reason we have built our unnatural world. The natural world is cold and hot, full of predators, disease and discomfort. So it did not take long for humans to change the world to be more hospitable. But of course, changing our circumstances changed the natural world, which then requires us to change our circumstances in another way.

This IS the natural world. When a coyote makes a meal of a prairie dog, it decreases the world by one prairie dog. Repeated at regular intervals, by enough coyotes, and the world we become prairie dog shy, and the coyote will have to begin to dine on other tidbits, or die itself. This will make the world coyote shy.

People who study evolution often get very excited about the fact that animals generally have abundant offspring and only the fit survive. Of course, the factor that determines which offspring survive is the environment. However, the surviving offspring change the environment, literally determining which environments survive and which collapse, or change. This brings to mind the phrase, “ever learning but never arriving at the truth”.

People cannot live apart from this cycle. People may forget they are a part of nature, but that does not remove them from being a part of nature, Environmentalists who want to eradicate human presence and industrialists who want to eradicate nature, both miss the mark. What is needed is for humans to try to be a part of the cycle so as to not harm the cycle. But if we fail it will not matter greatly because nature will make the correction for us. God has made it so.

The gene changes the environment and the environment selects the gene. They are both going nowhere. But that doesn’t mean the humans are going nowhere. The natural world is the platform humans walk through as they enact their own character and salvation. Nature is simply Gods way of preserving the platform.