If evolution is true, isn't war good? or at least amoral?
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You're taking evolution, which is a biological theory, and applying it to society. Now, that may or may not be valid, but that's what you're doing.\n\nAnother issue with your question is the answer may be different depending on your perspective. From the viewpoint of the species, the more advanced, smarter society tends to win wars, and tends to take over the land of the defeated peoples and spread successful ways of living and knowledge. So in that case, the argument can definitely be made that war is "good."\n\nBut, if you're coming from the perspective of a person in one of those weaker societies, or from the perspective of someone sympathetic toward those weaker societies or their members, then of course, war is bad.\n\n(To the guy who says there is no evidence for evolution, you need to open your mind and look at everything rather than being so biased as to write off the overwhelming amount of evidence contrary to your opinion.)
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Evolution is fact.  Think about it.
681839
There is no need to replace evolution as there is no evidence that evoultion is in any way contradictory to reality or lacking in predictive power.\n\nBTW: Shouldn't this be in biology?
106472
To justify any war is to tell your kids,fighting will solve the problem.I don't think so,we truce with them and resolve the mistakes we make in life by being civil.Yeah,thats the life we should all live by and we don't.The world would be a better place if the respect,was there.The war is any excuse to show pravery.
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Well, I think so.  I'm a biologist who accepts the fact that evolution occurred, but I don't use that to try to prove that God doesn't exist.  I'm also a born-again Christian who doesn't doubt a single word in the Bible.  Evolution is nothing.  I frankly don't see what the big deal about it is.  The real enemy is Materialism- those pseudoscientists who think the physical universe is all that exists.  That's not the same thing as evolultion.  One can still believe in God and simply think evolution was a tool He used at times.  But you can't be a Materialist and still believe in God at all.  People should understand that they're disputing about a worldview, not about facts.
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Evolution wins the logical argument 100,000 odds to 1. After almost a million years of existence, human life finally has the tools to esplain its own existence & put life into perspective. It is epic...spectacular in its implication...beautiful in its eloquence... science at its truest... \nIntelligent design is a desperate attempt by the clergy and theologians all of whom have had the rug pulled out from underneath them by evolution (science in general), to keep a foot in the door... to retain whatever credibility & salvage whatever pride they can... from a bad situation that is only going to get worse (unless they succeed in getting all science education banned) . However, all they have had to show for their efforts thus far, has been more of the same old & stunted mentality... a sad amalgam of pseudoscience & religious dogma.\nEvolution will take its pretty time to permeate the wider human conciousness...if history teaches us anything it is that people can be mulish, but more enduring has been the message that we sometimes take a longer and more convoluted route that is necessary (some times many thousands of years late) but the end point is the same...the truth wins.
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no war is good for anyone.  I really think that if one coutry has a problem with another....the two leaders should duke it out and who ever is still standing wins!!  It would only cost for the flight there and back.
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I see what you are getting at but, "The Seeds Of Human Abuse" has been around soo long that, we as Humans have evolved to learn new safeguards of "Hatred,Religious in-differences,& Political Pawns that help create War. I truly believe that, if we are to continue as a species of Educated & Decisive creatures, then we as Humans have to conform to other resources to (Clean-Up) our activities with Cleaner & Safer alternatives to fuel & Protect our Planets waste. Hatred is such a useless word that it prevents people from attaining their reall goals in life.We do have a big problem w/our Politicians & Diplomats World Wide. It seems fair to say that, A Politicians Life & a Diplomats Lives are somewhat exatly the same. They have learned from (Old School) ways to decieve the public in getting exatly what they want, but not for the very people that put them there to report if our goals for Global Unity have been met. t's really sad to say but, The Churches all seem to want to say that their Religion is better than the next, & really not passing the words of Faith. They should (Walk Their Talk). It would be nice if the World as we know it were one Goverment w/no Boarders.We are stuct w/all the lies that were ever told by our World Leaders.The only way that we can come clean is to have (One World United Goverment w/no Boarders) One for all,all for one.
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Other people have pointed out that we were actually the aggressor in Iraq because they didn't attack us (though we were defending innocent people) so I'll talk about why war is wrong.\n\nThe problem with war, philosophically, isn't war itself.  It's that in every war, innocent people will get hurt and die.  That's considered murder (yes, I know it's called collateral damage, but taking someone's life who is not threatening you is considered murder).  If we could have a war in which only people who consented to being in the war would be involved in the war, then you could have a moral war.  But that won't happen - even the best people when put into horrible situations will have to make decisions between one bad or another.
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Your assumption that war derives from misunderstandings is intellectually false and has no basis in reality.\n\nWar is nearly always caused by greed and pride.
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Ya so whats your point? \nHumans the products of power, no humans are the end result of million of years of evolution.\nPower held the world together I would argue that Power has almost torn the world apart on more then one occasion.\nyes we have a highly developed brain although on any given day just watching those around you would lead you to question the validity of that statement.
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first of all war is not evil, okay let me rephrase war is evil if it is to kill and murder innocent but if war is declared to stop evil for instance Hitler majorty of the world will agree that hitler was evil yes? But if it wasn't the wars he would still have his way... what I am trying to say is war is not evil if it is fought for the right reasons, for freedom, for the innocent, and against evil to stop evil i might add something later on to this but for now this is it. gtg
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war is never a good option to ending any dispute.  defense of those you love is done out of necessity but going out of your way to kill another human being because you disagree with their ideas or do not like the way they look...i don't know.  that just sounds...i don't know...evil.
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Evolution is a fact. People, plants, animals, weather, land masses and bodies of water all evolve. The word evolve means to develop or achieve gradually. However, the theory that evolution and the big bang are the origin of life is not a fact, only a theory. The beginning of life and matter is the one most significant and extraordinary event of all time, so how it happened is likely to be similarly extraordinary story. The Bible does not say "Thou shalt not evolve", nor does it say that "nothing ever develops and changes", in fact it calls us to evolve - spiritually, socially, and mentally. The Bible teaches us that there is only one thing that never changes - God. Why is it easier to believe that all of a sudden everything blew up and here we were - oops! No, things happen on purpose more often than they do by accident. Especially extraordinary things. They say that a bunch of monkeys could type the works of Shakepeare if given enough time... but wouldn't it be more efficient and infinitely quicker to let Shakepeare do it on purpose? And isn't one of the basic principles of nature efficiency? (i.e. the path of least resistance) So, no I don't think it's difficult to believe that an organized and developed being created an organized and developed universe. Also... as a Christian, I do not believe that we were created to assuage God's boredom. I believe we were created to love God - by our own free will rather than by force.
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No war is not a good thing, and anyone who thinks so should enlist instead of watching for updates on 'their side' on CNN.\n\nThere is never a good enough reason to kill innocents and you can't avoid killing innocent people in a war, no matter how hard you try.\n\nI truly hope, and my hope may be foolish that we'll one day see a time without war, without the world having to come to an end.
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No, because we definitely wouldn't want peace because there would be no progress and nothing to struggle for. What we are really looking for is a world with non-violence where we solve our conflicts and disputes diplomatically without going to war. That is a world in which there is till conflict but it is never violent and the opposite of peace is not war it is creation! It is completely possible to be non-violent, but to always agree on everything that would make us all the same and that kills diversity. To address the question of human nature. Humans are not inherently hateful, violent, or mean that's what we have been taught in our culture, there have been cultures in which this was not the case it merely requires some thoughtful research into ancient societies. Human nature is not fixed we are not bron a certain way it is mutable and we are programmed by our culture to behave in certain ways deemed culturally appropriate. The argument that humans are by nature violent has no real grounds because it will always be biased by a cultural viewpoint that see's violence as inevitable (such as ours here in the U.S.) Therefore we will always assume all humans are violent even when presented with evidence to the contrary. Humans are very capable of loving one another we see it happen all the time if we dain to look beneath the surface of things. We have had political struggles that have challenged racism, homophobia, sexism and so on all of which stem from a consciousness of love. I fully assert that humans are extremely loving creatures and that we can develop that side of our "nature".
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Evolution is not wrong.  tyvm