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Tafiti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jan-28-05 09:32 AM
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38. Again, agree to disagree.
You're not grasping my point, but that's fine. I admit it's probably a fringe minority opinion.

Your reasoning behind my eyeglasses example is amusing to me. Along that line of reasoning, I can then say: "The atomic bomb we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was natural, because I surmise that those Japanese people possessed a certain genetic trait that would've ill-served the human gene pool, and would've proved detrimental to the human species. The A-bomb was evolution in action." Human technology, be it constructive or destructive, is part of evolution right? Our free will is part of evolution, too, as you say. That's pure survival of the fittest, I suppose. You could put the Holocaust in the same example, saying that it was also evolution in action. Maybe the Jews also possessed a detrimental trait that Hitler prevented from entering the gene pool? Thus the Holocaust was a natural consequence of evolution. Sorry, but that is absurd.

Again, our views on how evolution works are diametrically opposed to one another. I see what you're saying, and I emphatically disagree. Though I still say that you simply don't understand what I'm trying to say. But, for now at least, I'm through trying.
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