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To: Heartlander
The correct answer: The Theory of Evolution is a Scientific Theory which describes the process by which homo sapiens as we know it emerged. It is silent on morality, theology and certainly acknowledges that all life forms are different from one another.

In the meantime, have you stopped beating your spouse/kids/significant other?

38 posted on 04/07/2016 3:14:01 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Don't mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance, or my kindness for weakness)
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To: freedumb2003
It is silent on morality...

Hmmm...Darwin didn't this so - he discussed how his theory relates to human morality and ethics in Descent of Man. If morality was the product of mindless evolution, then there is no objective fixed morality as stated by Michael Ruse and E. O. Wilson in The Evolution of Ethics:

Morality, or more strictly our belief in morality, is merely an adaptation put in place to further our reproductive ends. Hence the basis of ethics does not lie in God’s will…. In an important sense, ethics as we understand it is an illusion fobbed off on us by our genes to get us to cooperate. It is without external grounding. Like Macbeth’s dagger, it serves a powerful purpose without existing in substance.

Ethics is illusory inasmuch as it persuades us that it has an objective reference. This is the crux of the biological position. Once it is grasped, everything falls into place.

See also - Evolutionary Ethics.
51 posted on 04/07/2016 3:45:15 PM PDT by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
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