(June 24, 2015 at 11:28 pm)Godschild Wrote: Really, evolutionist why would you consider slavery bad (though I'm glad you do), in evolution the human life is no more important than the life of a dog or cow (I've heard that said right here many times by several people).Evolution is just a process of change over time, so it should not inform an opinion in that way. At best, if we notice how many other species behave, we would place our own welfare as a species above that of any other. But since we have (mostly) risen above instinct, we can reason the matter out. I suppose a person can argue that every life has the same value, but barring mental or psychological issues no functioning human actually behaves that way.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
