[Shryke]

And conservtives always underestimate it's effects on our (social) thinking. It (the effect on out thinking) has resulted in gradually accepting the slow drift downward of every principle, attitude, and standard we have.

Are you stating that evolutionary theory is responsible for our personal and social "decline"?

Advocating unchanging standards is met by social ridicule, not agreement and approval, even on FR.

What's this mean? We should never advocate change/growth? Sometimes?

[templar]

Are you stating that evolutionary theory is responsible for our personal and social "decline"?

I am stating that it is a factor. Think of the view of the constitution as a 'living' document that 'evolves' over time. That would be one example, ther are many more that should be easily observable by anyone looking for them.

What's this mean? We should never advocate change/growth? Sometimes?

It means we are abandoning absolute principles in favor of 'evolving' standards: that we no longer accept unchanging truth as self evident, but that we now believe that what is true today need not be true tomorrow (morally, ethically, legally, politically). This is the end result of accepting evolution as a valid fact and expanding it to encompass all of our life (whether we wish to aknowlege we have done so or not).