Why Do So Many Have Trouble Believing In Evolution? : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR
“But evidence for evolution is also much more palpable, for example in the risks of overprescribing antibiotics: the more we (and farm animals) take antibiotics, the higher the chance that a microbe will mutate into one resistant to the drug. This is in-your-face evolution, species mutating at the genetic level and adapting to a new environment (in this case, an environment contaminated with antibiotics).” I’ve said this for ages now - if you doubt evolution, put away your modern meds. Moral inconsistency keeps hundreds of thousands of evangelicals alive.
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I just had another commenter yesterday comment on humankind’s insistence on believing it is something separate from nature ... synchronicity.
There’s another factor, in addition to exceptionalism. It’s stupidity. I quote my code-warrior friend Beth, in Tucson: ‘You just can’t fix stupid.’
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I don’t think of it as moral inconsistency.
I think of it as arrogance, and I lay it at the foot of Genesis 1:26.
By giving mankind “dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth”, man is special and separate from nature and exceptional.
Kinda like some Americans like to think of themselves relative to the rest of the world.