evolve

I was wondering: Is there an evolutionary reason why we like music? Did people that liked the way certain sounds were put together somehow have an advantage? Why exactly do we like music? Anyone who's played an instrument (or anyone else for that matter) can tell when a song or note is out...

The other thread got me to thinking about how humanity has evolved, and wondering whether our rapid increase in medical knowledge is going to cause evolution to slow down or stop to some degree? In other words, "survival of the fittest" no longer applies, since we are able to medically help...

Self explanatory. Do people think everything evolves? Not just biological life, but the universe, the laws that govern it, the shape of the universe, etc. ? Either in a selection sense, or just in a sense of change over time.

Or will forms of life always collect and reform matter/energy in to distinct entities? Or perhaps something entirely different?

Bush, that is, in yesterday's press conference. It's not in the official transcript, but I could have sworn I heard him correct himself when answering the question about the airspace violation a few weeks ago: President: "Obviously, we do have a protocol in place to be dealing with a situation...

Does philosophy evolve in a linear way, like science and technology, going from the simpler or cruder to the more complex and sophisticated, or does it do something else entirely? Is it possible that the history of philosophy has been one of slow regression?

I have never heard this theory before. This is my own theory. If you have heard it before, then it is a coincidence as far as I'm concerned, because *I* never have. We are readily accepting the theory of evolution as fact...not theory. Correct? But evolution has been confined to the organic...

The thread title may look trollish but I hope you know me well enough to know thats not what I'm doing here. Any hoo, I have a few questions about how certain adaptations evolved. Basicaly what I'm wanting is what could be workable intermediate steps in the evolution of venus fly trap plants...

I'm sure this question has been asked before, but oh well. Why does anything evolve from it's present state? When single cells were the first life, and still exist by the trilllions all around us, why did anything become more complex? "Survival" is not a reason. Microbes/amoeba exist in...

Someone has probably thought of this question before but I'm interested in knowing at what point in human evolution the soul appeared. As far as I'm aware, most philosophies/religions (apart from the reincarnation crowd) indicate that humans are special among all life because man has an...