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Entry: What's So Scary About Evolution?--For Both Left and Right, a Lot Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/whats_so_scarry_about_evolution#26945 Post contents: Darwin becomes a cause for concern only when his views are taken to imply atheism. The loss of belief in human exceptionalism is of concern primarily because of what it implies for morality. If man is merely an animal, nothing more, why shouldn't we kill people whose lives are inconvenient or require people to breed for eugenic purposes? After all, we do both to animals. Those whose acceptance of Darwin causes them to lose faith in God have answers to these questions, but not good ones. As Dostoevsky noted, and as such philosophers as Leszek Kolakowski have agreed, morality without divine sanction is ultimately meaningless. Sent at: 2008 12 01