Darwinism is impossible to reconcile with the notion that humans have any special exemption from mortality. In Darwin's scheme of things species are not fixed or everlasting; there is no impassable barrier between human minds and those of other animals.
I can't see why this is necessarily so. Darwinism may not demand purpose, but I can't see how it necessarily excludes purpose. Certainly, terms of purpose continually creep into the writings of Darwinists. And Henri Bergson and Teilhard de Chardin, among others, have found it possible to think of evolution as purposeful.
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