Faith writes:
The best anyone can say for the ToE is that it is neutral.
I think you got it here, Faith. The ToE is completely neutral on this topic... and I don't think anybody can really claim it to be otherwise. The ToE is not a philosophy or a religion. It does not make rules about how we are to treat fellow human beings. It describes the process of how living things are related and change over time. That's it.
Just like Chemisitry or Nuclear Physics is completely neutral on the good and evil of warfare, the ToE is neutral on Eugenics.
Faith writes:
But I believe in fact it isn't, because just as humanitarian compassion is the direct fruit of the Bible's view of humanity, the ToE's view of humanity -- that we are descended from chemicals and previous forms of life -- offers no reason to put us above animals or count us as anything special at all, and the logical conclusions from that view of humanity IN ITSELF are what this thread is about.
Also here you are correct. ToE gives us no reason to put us above animals or makes us special. But neither do hundreds of other theories in Biology, Physics or Chemistry. They don't claim that they do. They don't need to. Who said that the ToE would, should or could tell us anything about 'humanity'?
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