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To: Zirdu who wrote (1122)	10/14/1999 8:43:00 PM
From: Akula	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 69300

The problem with evolution in a social context is that it is entirely Machiavellian. It works on the theory of gain at any cost to another. Each gene "wants" to have as many copies of itself floating aroung as possible. It has no moral or ethical considerations, hence from a social Darwinian point of view there is nothing inherently wrong with, say, murder. The ends would justify the means. For a culture that values ethics which may or may not be in their own best intrest, Social Darwinism is a terrible form of society.

To: Zirdu who wrote (1122)	10/15/1999 12:56:00 AM
From: pezz	Respond to of 69300

<Darwinism is a scientific theory, not a social or moral one. One should not try to apply biology to politics.> <<Why not?>> Egad man! ........ You sayin you want a lotta little "Donalds" runnin around here in a thousand years?....What's good for the individual is good for the species..... < Alas >... No longer applies to the human species. pez

To: Zirdu who wrote (1122)	10/17/1999 9:27:00 PM
From: Jill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

There have been fifty mass extinctions over prehistoric time, including four of a size comparable to the extinction of the dinsoaurs. The largest was about 250 million years ago and wiped out 95% of all species then alive. What makes anybody think we will be any different? As certain biologists point out, we may make conditions inhospitable for our life but microbes will survive--in fact they outnumber us by orders of magnitude and are far heartier. But right now at this moment in history, there is massive disruption, violence, greenhouse warming with ecological disasters such as tornadoes floods and draughts on the increase, kids killing kids, daytraders murdering colleagues and family, and so on, and so on...how much easier it is to imagine God will rescue us out of this into order, than to realize we are just a branch of the diversity of life and we're screwing things up.