It's not enough. Having said that, I'm not coming on as a fundamentalist who believes everything in the Bible is the literal word of God and has to be obeyed to the letter or you'll suffer. And I believe science has resulted in advances that have extended and expanded human life and possibilities. Think of it: less than 200 years ago a cut that today is treated with over-the-counter aids and medicines could have gotten infected, spread, become gangrenous and resulted in DEATH. Think of what people used to go through before cavities could be anesthetized, drilled and filled by your neighborhood dentist. Can you imagine the excruciating continual pain our descendants must have had to live with when they developed an abscessed tooth?
But ever since Darwin made his observations of animal and plant life and came to his conclusions, descendants have perverted his findings into all manner of despotism and evil with which to dominate and subjugate their fellow man. There was the hybrid known as "social Darwinism" that supposedly explained why some people got rich and others stayed poor. It was an early so-called "scientific" defense of predatory business practices. Marx and Hitler in their times admired Darwin. Marx even sent Darwin a proto-fan letter because Marx found in the evolutionist's work justification for his (Marx's) philosophy which would result in the bloodiest, most terroristic regimes on earth. Again: a select few (the ruling elite) would dominate the many who had no will of their own, uniqueness or purpose except as human cattle to be chuted, bred, worked, harvested then slaughtered for the profit and enjoyment of their masters. These select few represent the pinnacle in the "evolution" of the human race and are therefore worthier to live and prosper than "the rest".
Darwinism taken to its logical, "scientific" conclusion would mean the eradication of every moral precept and law except the one of brute strength over weaker life forms. "I desire your wife...and for that matter, your house too! I'm coming over with my club or my posse and we're going to fight to the death to see who 'wins'." Forget about what's right or just. Forget about courts of law and deliberative juries. I've got a bigger stick than you, I've got bigger pecs than you, so I win.
It's no accident that Darwin drew his conclusions based on observations of the animal world, because his findings -- extrapolated to human society -- are the triumph of jungle law over the common law. Which is why I believe religion -- and, further, a religion based on love, charity and peace -- has a place in human society, even if it can't explain everything. Even if that religion has at times held back the human "race"...to what goal?
I also doubt Darwin, if he were the pure scientist I think he was and believed his findings might someday be overturned, corrected or improved upon by future generations of scientists who approached his lessons in the same spirit that he set off with on the good ship Beagle, would endorse a lot of the atrocities that have been committed since in the name of evolution. In fact, the actions of "evolutionists" who want to force-feed Darwin's teachings of over 100 years ago to schoolkids in the 21st century, fly in the face of the scientific method and spirit of endless inquiry and validation upon which real science is based. At what point do you differentiate the zealotry of the fundamentalists from the zealotry of the evolutionists?
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