Reply #75: This line made me ROFL: [View All]

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..."rethinking evolution is pushed to the political front burner in hopes that "survival of the fittest" ideology can be replaced with a more humane explanation for our existence and stave off further wars, economic crises and destruction of the Earth."

So evolution was responsible for the Crusades, the Thirty Years War, the 70-year war to convert the Netherlands back to Catholicism AND the Great Depression?

The statement sounds eerily like the standard right-wing Fundamentalist claim that Darwinism was responsible for the rise of Fascism, Nazism and Stalinism. But the Proto-Fascist, Mussolini, sucked up to the Pope fiercely to ensure that he had the Vatican on his side. Hitler's henchmen thought they could breed a race of Aryan supermen, nevermind what congenital diseases might have been teeming in the genes of the Ubermenschen. And Stalin's boys wrecked Russian genetics for decades by pushing the blatantly political science of Lysenkoism. In Stalin's Russia, being a Darwinist could get you sent to Siberia.

I know all that, and I'm just a dumbass completely lacking a scientific degree.

As for "destruction of the earth," yes, I do believe it was the noted scientist and Secretary of the Interior James Watt who postulated that environmentalism was unnecessary because "Jesus is coming back soon."

Now there's a Darwinist interpretation if I ever heard one!

The statement quoted above, to me, is nothing but a wonky form of left-wing Millenialism. Instead of converting everybody to Xianity so Jesus will come back and reign in glory etc., all we have to do it get rid of evolution's "survival of the fittest ideology" and presto! No more wars, economic crises, or destruction of the Earth! Hallelujah!

Typical simple-minded solution to complex problems. I'm just surprised to see so many alleged progressives falling for it.