03.29.11
Evolution, ethics, and Darwinism’s sick joke
The current controversy over kin selection is overdue: it was always another one of those ‘smart’ stupid bits that fed the mystique of Darwinism. It is hard to pass judgment on the mechanics. In general if you breed a group of people for crime based on a population selected from a prison population (or any other), the result would show a genetic componet. In reverse gear, the genetics of group/kin selection is something I can’t reject out of hand. But the point is that this can’t be the real evolution of ethics, which requires showing what human moral behavior is (description, a very very hard task, never accomplished, but indicated by figures such as Kant in his ‘common ordinary morality’), and how it evolved, after evolution involved a conscious agent with a latent power of will. Darwinism is so far from achieving this as to be a sick joke.
Info:
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/bertrand-russell-and-expert-opinion/
http://history-and-evolution.com/whee4th/chap2_1_2.htm:Evolution
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