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Author Topic:   Did the belief in evolution ever accomplish good?
Peter
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Message 24 of 29 (9177)
05-03-2002 5:37 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by techristian
04-22-2002 11:20 PM


quote:
Originally posted by techristian:

Did evolution doctrine ever do anything good to cure sickness, or abolish world hunger or anything good at all?

First, there is NO evolution doctrine.
Evolution is a theory on the cause of the variety of life
on earth, and has large bodies of evidence (see, well the
whole of this site) which support it.
quote:
Originally posted by techristian:

I know that a belief in evolution has led some individuals to live like animals in wild sex orgies

Beyond the obvious (humans ARE animals and so any way we
behave is behaving like animals), could you please point to
some animals that have wild sex orgies ?
Or were you being metaphorical ?
Could you explain exactly how a belief (although its not)
in evolution can lead to immorallity ?
There ARE christians who accept the ToE, are they immoral too ?
quote:
Originally posted by techristian:
and others to to treat "less evolved" races as slaves.

While others have pointed out that slavery pre-dates ToE by
several thousand years, it is worth noting that (assuming you
are alluding to Nazi germany) I believe that the 'Master Race'
concept is from Nietches(sp?). It does NOT rely on evolution,
nor refer to it. It simply is the mis-representation of one
race as superior to another, and as soon as we have a
'We are superior' attitude we are in trouble .... I mean
look at the Crusades.
quote:
Originally posted by techristian:

I also know that a belief system such as evolution , void of a belief in the wrath of God, makes it easy to commit murder and other crimes. But has it ever done any good?
Dan

Again many christians accept ToE, so how is evolution connected
with Atheism ?
As far as any good goes .... what relevance does that have ?
Scientific enquiry is neutral. It seeks to explain existence
as we find it. How that information is used can be good or
bad (i.e. only people can be good or bad within the context
of their society).

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