To: Dimensio
You seem to be arguing that the consequences of applying a biological theory to social systems should have some bearing on the validity of the biological theory. It does not work that way. Evolution isn't just a biological theory; it's also a worldview. Given how the application of the worldview in modern times has had some terrible consequences it's natural to want to put the genie back in the bottle, to go back to saying "it's only a biological theory." But reality doesn't work that way, and evolution today (whatever else it may have been in the past) is a complete worldview.
329 posted on
05/07/2003 1:25:52 PM PDT by
Stop Legal Plunder
("When words are many, sin is not lacking." -- Proverbs 10:19a)
To: Stop Legal Plunder
You might want to ask one of the 10's of thousands of scientists whose work is somehow related to evolution. Ask them if their chosen field affects their "worldview."
You'll find these scientists at Freeper rallies, Dem fundraisers, Green Party protests, Socialist back alleys, Commie gatherings, temples, mosques, igloos, military bases, public universities, private universities, jesuit universities, etc.
Ok, maybe not igloos.
To: Stop Legal Plunder
Evolution isn't just a biological theory; it's also a worldview.
Evolution contributed to a paradigm shift but it is not, in and of itself, a worldview. It is a biological theory, it is an attempt to explain observed phenomenon with biological organisms. Your previous attempts at asserting that evolution makes "rape" right remind me of a USENET kook named Jabriol who has a habit of using every recent tragedy (Columbine, Iraq's atrocities, the WTC attacks) as an attack on evolution, calling it "natural selection in action". Despite repeatedly being told that he is utterly misrepresenting the theory, he keeps at it. He also has a habit of posting in rape vicitm support newsgroups and telling the people there that according to evolution, what happened to them was just and right.
So far, he's not won any converts. People realise that his arguments are intellectually bankrupt.
337 posted on
05/07/2003 1:36:18 PM PDT by
Dimensio
(Sometimes I doubt your committment to Sparkle Motion!)
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