That’s because evolutionary theory preserves what Darwin said, because it is right. What ET does is refine Darwin,
Absurd
Nature does not have debts.
All change is evolution. It can be from the complex to the more simple or vice versa. Bacteria and viruses are continually evolving. They represent the most common of all organisms.
Evolution is not necessary progess. It is all about fitness. Selection does not always mandate more intelligence.
You really do not understand what is going on.
If each organism is an integral part of an ecological biosphere, it behooves those organisms with brains to be actively concerned with climate change, over-human population and toxic waste. Of course not all creatures with brains are responsible for our present condition. Humans are because “To whom much is given, much is required.” We must see the planet as our home, not as raw materials for exploitation. Our destiny is certainly not to evolve into our own cause of death and destruction. Belief in God holds us responsible for what we do to each other and the planet. The selfishness of me-ism must be overcome.
What type of belief supports hope for the continued renewal of the Earth? Me-ism as owed to Martin Luther and the enlightenment has produced modern conveniences and scientific breakthroughs with the side effects of waste and exploitation. Me-ism neglects the fact that we are all in this together and, as Aldous Huxley noted, hubris causes nemesis. What is the price we must pay for getting the goods? Our collective demise?
Not at all.
I’ve read much of his work. I think you are going to have to do a much better job if you think you can challenge his work.
The ignorant still exist. That would be you. Until you open an book you shall remain so.
I suggest you start with Origin of Species.
I’l not be holding my breath. But the sooner you start the less ignorant you will be.
That is not a recognisable phrase in science or evolution.
Cetaceans are at least as intelligent has humans, probably far more so. They have been given much more, yet seem to require so much less.
Belief in God is one of the worst things for the destruction of the planet.
In fact it all went wrong at about the same time as the advent of the monotheistic religions with the promise of heaven.
Why would anyone care about the beasts of man’s dominion when they are promised a heavenly reward wnd now for sure that God intends to destoy everything himself as he did at the time of Noah?
The only hope for humans is the rejection of religion.
The Nietzschean view of religious people neglecting the Earth in favor of some afterlife heaven is outdated. I used the Zarathustra quote to emphasize popular religious beliefs, not noting the evolution of Christianity in that use. Progressive Christians are paying attention to the woes of the planet and are acting positively in its favor. Many Christians nowadays do not believe in afterlife heaven or hell. If Christianity can evolve, why can’t ideas of Darwinian evolution?
If we are stuck with 19th century Darwinism, biological science has not progressed much since then.
I think for him Darwin signifies a personal agenda enforced by arrogance and hubris. The agenda does not have to be right; it simply has to be insulting and loud. He debates like a high school sophomore. But I should not answer ad homs with ad homs. It’s a waste of time and space. But his style of debate invokes childish reaction. I’ve said enough.
No it is not. It is in full swing, and had accelerted.
A religion that evolves denies the truth of its own establishment.
One day god is immutable, the next - meh! not so much. God was just wrong in the past, and now magically he has come round to our way of thinking, and everything is okay.
This is a joke surely??
Funny guy.
One day you attack it for being out of date the next you attack it for not growing.
You can’t have it both ways.
The fact is that Darwin’s ideas have been buily upon. They predicted genetics, and genetics is one such massive realm of science that is due to the work that he did.
Heretics to some…
A religion that evolves denies the truth of its own establishment.
One day god is immutable, the next - meh! not so much. God was just wrong in the past, and now magically he has come round to our way of thinking, and everything is okay.
“The Nietzschean view of religious people neglecting the Earth in favor of some afterlife heaven is outdated.”
“Progressive Christians are paying attention to the woes of the planet and are acting positively in its favor.”
There is only one ‘woe’ that the erf and the people of it are facing. Well there’s two. One is an extraterrestrial threat (meteor, radiation blasts, etc), and the other is the capitalist.
Now N was right but the significance of his point was made far better by Feuerbach, Marx, Engels, and other left-wing atheists of the day. In order to understand the significance, you have to first understand that capitalism is the only real danger (aside from shit coming from space).
The great significance is this: religious beliefs create pacifism and impotence in the working class because (as N began to point out) they devalue the immediacy of their real problems by hoping for a life in heaven or wherever.
The Pope stull sits on his hands on big issues of contraception and abortion, when population pressure in Catholic countries is bursting.
This frnge group finds that easy to say, but what are they actually doing?
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It’s worse than that.
The big three promise a future reward and the destruction of the current earth, whilst peaching dominion over the beasts of the field and the wild.
Thank you for your post.
Religion wedded to capitalism has supported, in its lust for lucre, genocide of indigenous people, slavery, child labor and wholesale exploitation of Nature.
I support a religion that embraces democratic socialism.
In the possible fates of the planet that you mention, most of the world’s religions are not culpable. The religion that is culpable for atrocities to man and nature is the KJ literalist variety. That variety would be unrecognizable to the early church fathers.
Religion itself will not become extinct; it is “bred in the bone”. The best we can hope for is that it can evolve to include something like the 8 tenets of progressive Christianity.
What Dawkins failed to consider–blaming religious fundies for the world’s ills will not fix things.
He would not rail against capitalism; it sells books.
