Originally posted by e4chris
Dawkins is the idiot for trying to dress up evolution (which remember when applied to people is called Eugenics) as an alternative to religion
it is painfully well proven that Eugenics is not an alternative to religion.
Um What?!?!?!
You don't know what you are talking about.
First off, nobody, including Dawkins, is saying that evolution is an alternative to religion.
That's as stupid as saying that Newtonian gravity is an alternative to religion.
Evolution is an explanation (a scientific theory) for how life diversified and adapted to it's
environment over billion of years to give the present diversity of species (including us).
All arising from a single common ancestor.
That's all it is (although when I say all... that's quite a lot).
What Dawkins, and others HAVE said... Is that a consequence of understanding how the
modern diversity of species can come to exist through purely natural unguided means is that
you have no need of, or evidence for, a god creating us.
When asked the question of where do we come from you don't have to say "I don't know" and
then have to explain to the idiotically triumphant theist that "and you don't know either, and
when you don't know you don't get to just make up an answer"... With evolution and the rest of
modern science you can actually answer the question (with a few parts still to be worked out).
this doesn't make atheism any more rationally justified (it was already full justified without it)...
But it does make it more satisfying.
As for Eugenics... That's a complicated subject, but saying that talking about the evolution of
people is automatically eugenics is absurd and wrong.