too busy with “real” science to ponder the moral implications of your work?
Sometimes something can be true, and bad.
Survival of the fittest only applies to animals and humans with no morals.
Unfortunately, people who don’t believe in 2000 year old books have no morals - they just make it up as they go.
The information and knowledge represented by the abundance of life is not the accumulated error of eons, rather it represents the diversity of adaptation. Graduated change or punctuated equilibrium are both not supported by the millions of years of fossil record that would be extant if indeed, these mechanisms were at play to produce type of life forms.
I'll try and remember that the next time I feel the urge to help an old lady across the street.