Creationist Moral Panic
June 3, 2017 at 6:51 pm
(This post was last modified: June 3, 2017 at 6:53 pm by Amarok.)
Creationists and IDiots love to spew the notion the if were just animals or if there preferred ethics is false. Then we will "act like animals" to paraphrase particular piece of propaganda I've encountered goes as followed.
If evolution is true and morals are nor assigned by a god then humans would give into an instinct for lust and conquest. And we should look at monsters like Gangis Khan in awe as they are the paragon of evolutionist proscriptive ethics.
This dumb of course dumb for 4 reasons
1. Lust may be an instinct but rape is not. Yes some species under duress will perform the act but that alone does not make it instinctive nor universal. And much of rape is meta or sub cultural often mingled with miscommunication .
2. Conquest is not an instinct in most if not all cases in humans it's cultural and not an inherent normative state
3. If we take theists often cartoonish view of evolution. Gangis Khan would have been a failure . His war and massacres wiped our perfectly healthy people thus reducing the gene pools health and diversity same goes for his rapes. And even if 5% of the human race has his genes how much of his sociopathic tendencies have translated to modern times ? If this method was evolutionarily advantageous why is it not still around?
4 . Theists don't get that evolution has little to do with prescriptive ethics on naturalism.
And most are far to lazy to learn what is.
Honestly at the end off it all this line of reasoning is just there to scare believers into to believing
If evolution is true and morals are nor assigned by a god then humans would give into an instinct for lust and conquest. And we should look at monsters like Gangis Khan in awe as they are the paragon of evolutionist proscriptive ethics.
This dumb of course dumb for 4 reasons
1. Lust may be an instinct but rape is not. Yes some species under duress will perform the act but that alone does not make it instinctive nor universal. And much of rape is meta or sub cultural often mingled with miscommunication .
2. Conquest is not an instinct in most if not all cases in humans it's cultural and not an inherent normative state
3. If we take theists often cartoonish view of evolution. Gangis Khan would have been a failure . His war and massacres wiped our perfectly healthy people thus reducing the gene pools health and diversity same goes for his rapes. And even if 5% of the human race has his genes how much of his sociopathic tendencies have translated to modern times ? If this method was evolutionarily advantageous why is it not still around?
4 . Theists don't get that evolution has little to do with prescriptive ethics on naturalism.
And most are far to lazy to learn what is.
Honestly at the end off it all this line of reasoning is just there to scare believers into to believing
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