Intentional Procreation

As you can imagine, plants don’t really get much choice in which get to procreate and continue on. Most simply germinate to the wind and hope for the best. Notably, plants that animals help pollinate do get at least some advantage, as the animals are more likely to take their collected pollen to healthier plants. But it is just a matter of luck for most plants – be it good or bad.

Animals are quite different. Animals are capable of selecting which partner they wish to procreate with. So, Q4P is able to program some much more successful habits into animals to ensure they successfully grow in complexity.

We’re often taught of Darwinism and evolution being a blind system where more “successful” animals survive to procreate. But that is a very oversimplified way of saying things. And it doesn’t fully account for what is happening.

In comparison, Birnbaum’s main driver for evolution Is Q4P. It is important to note this because Q4P takes into account something Darwinism doesn’t handle as well: preference.

Consider this: If an animal is less likely to survive, they are less likely to procreate. That much is obviously true and a cornerstone of Darwinism. But what if two male birds, we’ll say,

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both survive and are competing for a mate? They’re both survivors, so who gets to mate?

This is where instinct takes part. A female bird will automatically look for a mate using certain criteria – perhaps a partner that builds the most exquisite nest or performs the most elaborate “dance”. Instinct is a particular pattern of thought as it is preprogrammed into the DNA of animals. That has nothing to do with survival of the fittest and everything to do with Q4P programming living animals to seek complexity.

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