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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#27319 Post contents: Are you seriously asking me why genocide is wrong? Up to now, this thread has been about the supposed power of religion to PREVENT genocide after it was implicitly granted as wrong--not whether in fact it was wrong at all. I repeat: to atheists, chocolate cake still tastes good. Healthy people feel sympathy for other people. The idea that "other people feel much like I feel, I shouldn't harm them" is no more necessarily a gift from the Rainbow Serpent than the notion that since knives are sharp you shouldn't stab them into yourself. If you want to talk about what inspires genocide, well, the implication that people who don't believe in the right god have no morality and are less than fully-functioning people has done the trick in the past. For those who seriously think human life only gains value from God, it logically follows that it has no actual value of its own, and is disposable: nothing more than the presumed will of a god, the lack of the proper omen, etc., is required to justify taking those inherently-worthless lives away. If one thinks life is only special because God says so, it follows that life isn't special at all. I am the one who recognizes the value of life--something far more important than the invisible authority of supernatural phantoms, who so conveniently seem only to express themselves through very mortal authority figures who already hold the power of life and death over their subjects. Sent at: 2008 12 01