Why is the theory of evolution important?

Evolution of the understanding of the world around us is important to philosophy because it goes hand in hand with the questions of “Who am I”, “Where did I come from”, and “Where am I going?” The development of our knowledge and understanding of the world around us allows us and the human race to question and draw reasonable, at least within our own train of thought, conclusions of what we as individuals end up believing the answers to the earlier questions are pertaining to ourselves as individuals. My mom put it really simple one day, when I asked her as a child, “Mom, why doesn’t my grandma understand and react the way she does when you try to be nice to her, you haven’t done anything wrong to her and yet she miss treats you?” This was about my dad’s mom miss treating my mom all my life. I could not understand why my grandma would take money from us when we didn’t have enough for the household and still miss treat my mom in the process, so I questioned my mom. She explained, “Mija, every mind is a world in its own. Everyone thinks differently even when raised in the same family by the same mother and father and given the same opportunities as their siblings. Each person makes up their mind to what they want to believe and processes the information that is given to them differently.” This reasoning and understanding is not very deep, I understand, but it makes sense. As the offspring of this remarkable woman, my mom, and a not so nice lady my grandmother from my dad’s side, the way I process and continue to evolve these processes to change the negative impacted learned behavior from my youth to a positive legacy my children will take on and pass on in their lives will show the evolution of the family tree.

Some of us don’t want to behave like our parents. I could say many of us don’t want to behave like our parents. We in turn evolve from that stage in life grasp what we as individuals want to take from it and develop in place other mannerisms that we believe are more in line of who we want to be. This in turn changes our behaviors and the patterns we teach the next generation. They develop their way of thinking and thus they evolve and change according to how they want to think themselves to be and portray themselves to others. All this can be linked to the theory of evolution, the development of oneself, from generation to generation this evolution will continue as we continue to be.