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Darwinism has no foundation for placing value upon human life.

This statement leads me to believe you have very little knowledge of the real world. Nearly all species place an innate value on their members which exceeds that placed on members outside that species. When dogs (or blue jays, or elk) fight, it is never intentionally to the death. Why should humans be any different? Even pre-Christian and non-Christian people had to be taught to kill other humans to make them effective soldiers. Of course, you always have the occasional person who loves to kill (humans appear to be the only critters thus encumbered -- which makes certain arguments about "made in the image of God"), so he'll find any convenient excuse to ply his hobby without being removed by his fellow man.

No, sir. Your statements lead me to believe that you have no true awareness of the philosophical implications of Darwinism. IF, we all evolved (man, animals, plants, bacteria, etc.,) from one single source (primordial soup), then there is NO basis for saying that we are any more valuable than a dog, a banana, or a bacteria. Human life has no inherent value, only what majority opinion says it has. As far as having to be taught to kill, man has been murdering man since the beginning. There are tribes around the world today whose highest values are treachery. There are others who cannibalize. While some of these values are indeed taught, eventually, in the daisy chain, you have someone who came up with the bright idea that they were going to kill other humans for sport or food and that person easily convinced others.

The real world consists more of western civilized society, and some of it is quite ugly. It can get ugly even in the West. You place a lot of value on the basic goodness of man. If there is any good in man, he has gotten it from a good creator. In Darwinism, there is foundation for neither good nor evil, just opinion and that is a dangerous place to be.