so is the basic distinction you guys are making between 'purpose' and 'emergent function' that we don't have an intelligent designer? because other than that these terms seem more or less synonymous to me. when i said 'we exist to reproduce' i was thinking in terms of the earliest simple organisms evolving as a sort of machine/mechanism for helping to protect and propagate the genes they host. sort of like saying our heart exists to circulate blood throughout our body. not really implying that there was some sort of premeditated foresight that went into our heart's 'design.'
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