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> Most medications have negative side effects because otherwise our bodies would already have whatever changes they make through evolution.

That's not what evolution is, at all



This sounds like the argument during the pandemic, "If masks work, then why didn't we evolve permanent masks? Checkmate atheists." Though I do understand the impulse that evolution is working towards some unknowable perfection because of how I was taught evolution during high school, that is, of course, not how it works.




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