(April 10, 2015 at 5:42 pm)abaris Wrote: There's no dodging this question. And [how we came to be] is highly relevant for what and who we are.
Suppose I say: human beings are bipedal smooth-skinned rational animals. Or: human beings cannot produce Vitamin C and must get it from food. I have just described a very small aspect of what man is without taking any position on how he came to be.
Statements like the two above can be multiplied innumerably.
To be sure, the problem of our origins can be interesting and fruitful to study in its own right. But it is hardly the subject of the original post.
