When people dismiss evolution as a conspiracy, I find it confusing. To me, evolution and innovation are essentially the same thing. Evolution is about growth, adaptation, and the development of complexity over time, and that’s exactly what innovation is too.

Innovation builds upon what exists, making it more advanced, more intricate—just like evolution. If someone claims they don’t believe in evolution, are they saying they also don’t believe in innovation? Because when you look at how technology, society, or even nature advances, it’s always a process of building on top of what’s already there.

Think about it: as things evolve, whether it’s species or technologies, they adapt to their environments and refine their functions. Just like innovation refines ideas, systems, and technologies, both processes involve complexity emerging from simpler forms. Evolution isn’t just about biology; it’s the underlying principle that drives progress in everything from life forms to inventions.

Even fundamental laws like gravity or thermodynamics have evolved in our understanding of them. These concepts may not change, but our knowledge and applications of them do. This is where evolution and innovation overlap—both are about deepening complexity, fine-tuning systems, and finding better ways to navigate challenges.

So when people dismiss evolution, I wonder—are they also dismissing innovation? Both are processes of adapting, advancing, and progressing. Neither is a conspiracy; they are simply the mechanisms that guide how things grow and improve.

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Dismissing evolution is asinine. As you said, every process, be it human innovation or natural evolution, is about adaptation, trial and error; nothing is stagnant.

Now there’s one thing I disagree with. Evolution and innovation are somewhat fundamentally different. Innovation is a thought out process designed to achieve some desired outcome; evolution does not have any desired outcome (besides survival). There are tons of examples of redundant or inefficient “solutions” in evolution, since the evolutionary process is that of random mutations — if it works it works. In innovation you want to be as efficient and cost effective as possible, evolution does not care (it can’t care, it’s just an autonomous process).

I understand the point about evolution being random and lacking a desired outcome, but I see both evolution and innovation as processes that ultimately favor efficiency. While innovation is intentional, aimed at solving specific problems, evolution rewards organisms and systems that conserve energy and resources, even without conscious direction. Over time, more efficient adaptations outcompete less efficient ones, creating a natural trend toward greater complexity and conservation of energy.

In this way, both evolution and innovation, despite the differences, drive toward the same goal: increasing efficiency.

That I can agree.

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It's easy to conflate the two. Innovation is directed by intelligence, yours. Evolution, by definition, is not.

See my reply to the other.