[boondoggle16]

Actually, the earth is subject to evolutionary pressure in a sense.

This is the only planet that supports life (that we know of). That's because it's natural properties endured through billions of years to support life.

It's not exactly an arms race. And it's a different, but similar mechanism. But I think the underlying principles are the same.

In this case, evolution won't look like the earth changing over time. It's more like, there are billions of potential earths out there, and over billions of years, some of them will more subtly change to support life.

So, we may destroy our earth, but that doesn't impair the ability for other earths to evolve. We just may not see it.

[californical]

It’s definitely not subject to evolutionary pressure of any sort, because the earth is completely indifferent to life.

[boondoggle16]

I'm not understanding, your statement reads like a non-sequitur to me. Evolution has nothing to do with life.

[xg15]

Evolution has nothing to do with life? What? How would you define evolution then?

[boondoggle16]

Continual selection of entities which survive. For example, sand is the natural evolved substrate of beaches. Shells get ground into sand, anything heavier sinks to the bottom of the ocean.