Let Evolution fight for Evolution

[gulliver]

Most people who don't "believe in" evolution probably don't see it as a survival advantage. They see it as only an explanation of the past, for example, or they don't see how it applies to them. But even the non-believers of evolution are subject to it, and what it affects is their future. If you don't take an evolutionary perspective, you are at a survival disadvantage. Evolution helps you infer reasons for why people and other animals behave as they do. It lets you figure out why something goes right or wrong with your dog, in your corn field, or in your garden. Science isn't forcing evolution down our throats. Evolution created our throats and science too.

[Xipe Totec]

1. I think the problem is that intelligence, as an evolutionary survival trait, is overrated.

The dinosaurs lasted what, 183 million years? And it took a global natural catastrophe to wipe them out.

Man has been around for less than 7 million years, and we're already working on our own schemes to self destruct.

The long term odds are pretty slim.

[Johonny]

2. The problem is

The people with the "advantage" don't have to be American. I'd rather live in a country that gains the advantages that come with using the scientific method. I grant societies that use the scientific method have advantages over societies that mock or ignore it. But I want to be in the society that uses it, and not end up in the society that doesn't.