> It is not the job of science to "jack up" morality.
According to some, it apparently *is* (read back up the thread). The ignornat complaint has been repeatedly made here and elsewhere that the reason why kids act wild is that evolutionists have told them that they are Just Animals.
Stupid? You bet. But what do you expect from people who fight tooth and nail against the idea of Cause And Effect reigning in science class?
what do you expect from people who fight tooth and nail against the idea of Cause And Effect reigning in science class?
I know, I know. But it's my stubborn streak - I have this foolish notion that words actually mean something. ;-)
To be fair, there is a bit of ancedotal evidence on this. Apparently one of the whack job killers at Columbine had a t-shirt that said something like "survival of the fittest", and comments on their web site that they were going to help "evolve the species", apparently by killing substandard kids.
That's certianly a warped idea of evolution, but I think the fault lies with the way ignorant people have attacked evolution, not with the fact that evolution exists. Evolution has been turned into a religious issue by religious people, not by science.