Make Peace With Darwin

When people suggest that you “make peace with God”, they might mean:God is very powerful, so you are unlikely to win fights with him,His authority is legit, so you should be ashamed to fight him, andAny value by which you might justify fighting him came from him, and he understands it better than you.I now suggest that you “make peace with Darwin”. Instead of trying to fight Darwinian evolution, you should mostly work with it.One reason is that while you may have the freedom and resources to pursue whatever goals you choose in the short run, in the long run Darwinian evolution, via both DNA and culture, is a very powerful force. So powerful that if you love something enough to want it to last and grow in the long run, your main way to achieve that is to mix practices which support that thing you love into a pretty adaptive overall cultural and DNA package. After all, cultures with less than adaptive packages go away.My slogan here is “To Love Something, Mix It With Life”. And to…