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It would be stupid not to believe evolution for humans but believe it for all other species. I'm not american but pretty sure that this can't be the standard li
by szemet 9y ago
It would be stupid not to believe evolution for humans but believe it for all other species. I'm not american but pretty sure that this can't be the standard liberal view.
What is my view (and perhaps many others share it), is that human life is simply lived in a different abstraction level. Like when you program, you work with numbers and text and logical values and usually you do not have to care that there are electrons down there. You can express things at this abstraction level, that could not be understand by any human using just the lower physical level. E.g. most of the time you just can't fix an operating system bug with a screwdriver...
Similarly, in my everyday personal life I usually work with my emotions, thoughts etc.
For example if I have a desire for family or child, even if I know, that the physical implementation of this desire have an undoubtedly strong evolutionary origin, I don't work on that low level, why should I?
I could decide what to do with my desire at the same high level where it appears to me (as I would would fix most OS bugs in the source code), even if I would never heard about evolution - as did many people before Darwin.
Of course every true fact can be useful sometimes, and social problems may be handled at the evolutionary level too. But I'm not sure how far it could get us.
We may (should?) experiment, but social darwinism have a bad reputation since the WWII, and it is hard to do anything against this. (Maybe the large business behind genetic engineering will change the picture...)