How many users on these boards actually support "The Theory of Evolution"?

[fmc83]

Tyrannical said:

fmc83 said:

Tyrannical said:

Wouldn't you prefer if God created and loved all men equally?

Wouldn't you prefer to live in a world where milk and honey flows, and everything is exactly how you like it to be?

Well, guess what: There's a difference between imagination and reality.

 

Well, if evolution was correct, wouldn't it justify racism or genocide? I seem to understand that homo sapien sapiens may have commited genocide against Neanderthal man, but I suppose that is just evolutionary progress. I suppose killing off the american indians was just evolutionary progress too. I suppose blacks living in the more backward part of Africa would be next on that list in the name of evolution.

 

Of course evolution was handled in a wrong way to justify genocides, but the idea of a god is and was handled to justifiy that as well.

 

There are many theories about the end of the Neanderthaler. One is, that they were simply to specialized in eating meat (they needed more energy than homo sapiens), so he basically died, because our ancestors killed the mammoths and other big animals and the ice age was over.

 

Actually some of the killing of the Indians is caused by a evolutionary reason. New illnesses coming to the Americas which never occured there before. Measles, whopping cough and small pox killed nearly half of the Cherokees and Iroquois.

This small differences are definitely caused by evolution. The rest of the killing is simply caused by the fact, that most Europeans at that time thought, that white skin is superior to other. But as evolution describes what happened and not what happens next, it's just misused for racists.