1.3 Desires & Instincts

Pre-Programmed Desires

Consider what happens if core instincts are missing:

• No hunger signal: many organisms would fail to eat in time.
• No danger response: survival would collapse quickly.
• No sexual drive or ability: reproduction would stop.
• No parental bonding: offspring survival rates would crash.

Many of these behaviors appear reliably across generations, even without direct teaching. That strongly suggests built-in biological programming.

The Mosquito Example

Female mosquitoes can lay large egg batches after mating, and many life-cycle behaviors occur without parental training.

These recurring patterns are consistent with species-level biological encoding rather than social learning.

Official summaries of mosquito biology describe innate reproductive physiology—for example, female mosquitoes need a blood meal to produce eggs—and species-typical adult lifespans, without any learned “parenting” that teaches those stages.

Reference: U.S. CDC, About mosquitoes

Mercy and Compassion

This does not automatically refute evolution, but it raises a deeper question: how did highly coordinated instinct packages emerge, stabilize, and remain reliable across generations?

It also appears to conflict with the concept of innate, inherited moral traits such as mercy and compassion

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Key Takeaway

Each species appears to carry a structured package of instincts and drives that individuals do not design for themselves.

Survival depends on a wide range of built-in instincts and drives—so much so that even small failures in critical ones can push a species toward extinction.