[QUOTE]Originally posted by techristian:
[B]Did evolution doctrine ever do anything good to cure sickness, or abolish world hunger or anything good at all?[/QUOTE]
The understanding of the ToE has led to better treatment for genetic diseases, and it has led to a great deal of improvement in food crops and disease resistance in food plants. It also helps us to understand how to prevent pesticide resistance among pests.
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I know that a belief in evolution has led some individuals to live like animals in wild sex orgies and others to to treat "less evolved" races as slaves.
Uhh, sex orgies??? ROTFLMAO!!
Social Darwinism, as has been discussed on this board several times, is a MISUSE of the scientific theory and is not correct. Do not blame the ToE for some people's misuse of it. Should I condemn Christianity because some people have misused it to, say, conduct the Crusades or the Spanish Inquisition, or kill doctors?
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I also know that a belief system such as evolution ,
The ToE is not a "belief system". The ToE is a scientific theory which is well-supported by the evidence. It is every bit as much a "belief system" as Gravitational Theory, Atomic Theory, or the Germ Theory of Disease.
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void of a belief in the wrath of God,
There are many Biologists who are also Christians, so the above statement of yourse is rather nonsensical.
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makes it easy to commit murder and other crimes.
Um, how many people in our pisons today, do you think, do not believe in the wrath of God? Do you think that our prisons are filled with Atheists or Christians?
Many people who commit crimes such as murder are poor and uneducated and have not likely even heard much about science at all, let alone Biology, let alone the ToE. The average person in the US has a very poor understanding of science in the first place.
Where do you get these outlandish ideas, anyway?
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