Yes, there are definitely other possible explanations, though the ones I gave seem most common. But yours seems to beg the question—why does evolution lead to more goodness over time?
We don’t need to understand why evolution leads to goodness to see that it does so—and predict that it will continue to do so. However, scientists do have some understanding of why. Game theory, adaptation and synergy are some of the factors involved. Also a sufficiently-low frequency of meteorite strikes and cosmic rays is clearly an important factor.
Yes, there are definitely other possible explanations, though the ones I gave seem most common. But yours seems to beg the question—why does evolution lead to more goodness over time?
I could be wrong, but I don’t think timtyler is claiming that this is a good argument but only that this is an argument that people use.
Evolutionary progress gets thumbs-up from me. The page I originally cited was my own.
We don’t need to understand why evolution leads to goodness to see that it does so—and predict that it will continue to do so. However, scientists do have some understanding of why. Game theory, adaptation and synergy are some of the factors involved. Also a sufficiently-low frequency of meteorite strikes and cosmic rays is clearly an important factor.