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nigelswift Sep 17, 2008 14:04:29
Replying to stray

I regret (sincerely) that I see evolution as 100% cold, nasty and ruthless and compassion as merely one of it's tactics. We survivors are imbued with a capacity for it because social tit-for-tat had a strong survival advantage for our ancestors.

I see that as a logical, if unpleasant explanation for our occasional niceness (and for the fact our niceness tends to reduce in extremis! Why else would it?!) and a reason to think that the much more pleasant idea of a God-given kindness lodged in everyone's soul - is an unnecessary speculation.

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handofdave Sep 17, 2008 14:11:55
Replying to nigelswift

Heh heh... it's ironic that many Xtians who don't believe in that cold, ruthless evolutionary model DO believe in Social Darwinism.

But so many of them are incapable of discerning their own contradictory beliefs. The only thing that the fundy maniacs REALLY believe is that they are 'tight with the lord', and the rest of us are not. And like with the extremist interpretations of the Koran (it's OK to sin as long as it's against an unbeliever), incredibly self-serving and indefensible from an objective point of view.