Re: [asa] Opposing Anti-Evolution

In a message dated 7/13/2006 1:33:22 PM Eastern Standard Time,
pleuronaia@gmail.com writes:
The principle is illustrated well in Prince Caspian. Governor Gumpas claims
that the money from the slave trade is necessary for "progress". Caspian
claims that this "progress" is more properly called "Going Bad."

Taking a scientific principle other than evolution may help illustrate the
point. Gravity tells us that masses tend to attract each other. However, a
book on my shelf does not become better by falling to the floor, and I certainly
cannot invoke gravity as a moral imperative for me to drop heavy things off
high places. Yet people are believed when they make equally silly claims
invoking evolution.
That's not what the bible says. The bible says God favors the learned.

If evolution is making us more able to learn, then it is progress. This is
not a moral judgment. It's the recognition that we progress from less learned to
more learned, developmentally throughout our lives and evolutionarily as we
evolve greater intelligence.

I don't know anyone who would NOT want to be smarter than they are. We
intuitively know smarter is better.

I don't know how you can compare the evolution of intelligence with the slave
trade. I just don't see it as an apt analogy.

rich faussette

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Received on Thu Jul 13 17:56:37 2006