Claims

Change is fundamental to persistence; binary categories like 'persisting' versus 'not persisting' are unhelpful; if you try to persist unchanged, you die; persistence requires adaptation and change.

Language is the essence of what it means to be human, distinguishing humans from animals which have only noises or gestures for communication.

Purpose (teleology) cannot be adequately explained by evolutionary theory because evolutionary thinking tries to explain human motivations while simultaneously studying the human who is doing the explaining, creating a self-referential loop that forces us to recognize purpose and meaning are intrinsic to how organisms function.