Your command won't do anything, but it doesn't mean you will get wet, if your lucky the tide is on its way out.

The importance of science is that when you do this, and the events play out, that you don't go away thinking you can control the sea by commanding it.

The importance of science isn't that it can tell us what is real or true, but that it can tell us what isn't.

I suspect we do have an evolutionary desire for meat, especially white meat, as its a good source of nutrients - and on a primal level, that's a benefit - But our ancestors didn't eat a lot of meat.

You can eat what you want, but you'd be absurd to think that because you can, and evolution has left us with a taste for meat, that means its good for you to do so. Its not. Its not 'smoking bad for you', but eating meat on a daily basis (which I do) isn't healthy. Especially red meat.

Given that our ancestors would have hunted for meat, it wouldn't have been a very common source of food. Humans are poor hunters, and hunting isn't an overly efficient means of gathering food for humans. Plus of course the food isn't the primary reason why humans hunted - it was the skins of animals. The meat is just a bonus. Anthropological studies of primitive tribes generally bear this out. Meat is a treat.

We have a biological drive towards sugar, to the point that its physically addictive, because our ancestors struggled to find sugar and its essential to the function of the human body and brain - That's why sweet things taste so good - But this is a maladaption in the modern age where sugar is so prevalent - to the point that its effectively a slow poison.

Problem of evolution, is that society moves far faster. 40,000 years ago were probably weren't even domesticating animals for food. Now the most prevalent species of animals other than insects on earth exist only a species bred for food.

Of course, in truth, you, me and the healthiest person alive, are all going to die. I like bacon. I know its not good for me, but f**k it, it tastes great.

It can't really be morally defended, its bad for you compared to the alternatives, but I eat it anyhow - because millions of years of evolution where meat is scarce has conditioned us towards finding fat and meat very tasty indeed.

Even if it ends up contributing to our premature death.