Return to David's theory of evolution, purpose & theodicy (Evolution)

by David Turell @, Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 20:33 (212 days ago) @ dhw

Another view of the statistics of our evolution:

https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGxStpNnPZttJdhRHJjjvBQXvKg

"Longtermism says that your altruism should focus on benefitting the longterm development of humanity because, if all goes well, many more humans will live in the future than now. In this illustration, each grain of sand illustrates 10 million people. The green grains are those alive today, that’s about 8 billion, the red ones are those who lived in the past, about 110 billion. But that is just a tiny part of all the lives that are yet to come."

Comment: a meaningful excerpt close to Raup's numbers, in this case about 0.7% survivors. Just another normal view of evolution and its statistics. Were those 110 billion lost humans a waste of God's time as seen in dhw's looney view of evolution???


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