Evolution of Behavior

Is evolution responsible for our behavior?I'm bringing up this topic because I realized that evolution, with the advancement of our physical bodies, would also develop the way we act if my logic is right. If this is true then how is murder, rape, cannibalism, etc. justified?

I might not have worded that right. My logic is that if behavior goes along with the evolutionary process, then certain behaviors would be a natural link to our genetic make-up.If this true then why is there a choice to do good and do bad? If behavior is biological and not free will, then there would be no choice for our actions. They would simply be natural processes.This message has been edited by daaaaaBEAR, 02-06-2005 01:37 AM

another contradiction.. dictionary definition: "Change in the genetic composition of a population during successive generations, as a result of natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals, and resulting in the development of new species." or "A gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form"So its history, huh? The Bible is history too, and its accurate without a doubt. Check your dictionary or don't use the word evolution. evolution is bad to good, less complex to more complex. So murder can be right for you but not for me?!?!?! I can see how evolution would support this fact and it leaves me with an undeniable sense of relief that I believe in a social system where right is right and wrong is wrong.An advantage?!?! You said it could also be a disadvantage but to claim that rape or murder might possibly be beneficial to the advancement of human beings is downright offensive to the human race.without absolute truth our society is chaos.

If this is true then how is murder, rape, cannibalism, etc. justified?this is where you said it: So if a person is from a different country then murder is OK because of the moral structure or one's religious affiliation? You didn't say it in terms of me and you, obviously, but what you implied is that murder or any other sin's moral value is based upon the society and its moral system?
Al Quaida terrorists are extremists. They believe that crashing a plan e into the World Trade Center was a religious crusade and they would be eternally glorified for that action. If moral absolutes are not held then we as the victims can just say "Well, if its they think that's the right thing to do then we can't interfere." No, behavior has to have a moral structure (right and wrong). Evolution does not agree with this because our behavior would just be the way we evolved. Did Ed Gein evolve to go through with countless gruesome murders, did Mother Theresa evolve to do good, did Hitler evolve to be the leader of massacres? If there's not a benchmark for what is right and wrong then truth is truly lost.on rape, murder, cannibalism: Just look at what you posted in response to my comments. From that perspective a "sin" (if you have morals) may have an evolutionary advantage over another. If this is true then carnivores such as lions, sharks, etc. are the same as murderers. Except that carnivores kill so they can live....Why do humans kill other humans? Does it benefit our existence? Carnivores kill because they have to and its instinct but humans function on a level of right and wrong. You don't have to be a scientists to see it.

Here are two things you said: and If that's not self-contradictory I don't know what is. Aren't genetic traits PART of evolution? Please order your thoughts. Do you have any proof whatsoever for that claim? So you affirm that right and wrong is relative, at least we got that straight. I would like to ask why you to try to discredit the Bible to use for your support. I'm talking about evolution and how what is has to do with behavior, not the Bible. This is off topic here.