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To: RussP
If that is true, then killing men is fundamentally no more immoral than killing animals

That is a moral argument that isn't contained in natural selection and not supported by Darwin himself. Natural selection is also responsible for cultural evolution that produces morals that say that killing is wrong and ultimately leads to the "Golden Rule", which predates Christianity.

11 posted on 04/24/2008 11:46:49 PM PDT by Soliton (McCain couldn't even win a McCain look-alike contest)
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To: Soliton

Wouldn’t “The Descent of Man” fill that gap?


12 posted on 04/24/2008 11:49:10 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Soliton

Also cultural evolution would lead to the same tautology as natural selection: The fittest survive. Who are the fittest? Those that survive.

Culturally then, had Hitler won, then the Holocaust would be moral.


15 posted on 04/24/2008 11:51:20 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: Soliton

“Natural selection is also responsible for cultural evolution that produces morals that say that killing is wrong and ultimately leads to the “Golden Rule”, which predates Christianity.”

This is typical of the non-scientific speculation and hand waving that passes for “thinking” by evolutionists.

Please provide me with a reference to the specific, random genetic sequences that produced “morals that say killing is wrong.”

You or someone else concocted that one out of thin air, and because it seemed vaguely plausible and supports your grandiose “theory,” you announce it as “scientific fact.”


18 posted on 04/24/2008 11:57:59 PM PDT by RussP
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