The heart is deceitful above all things,
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
Jeremiah 17:9
The media are abuzz with the latest “finding” of evolutionary biologists: humans don’t cause chimpanzees to act violently toward each other; it’s their natural evolved behavior. A paper announcing the conclusion in Nature (Wilson et al., “Lethal aggresion in Pan is better explained as adaptive strategies than human impacts”) was discussed in the same issue by Joan B. Silk (Arizona State). She draws the logical conclusion: if aggression is an adaptive strategy in our nearest evolutionary ancestors, then it must be for humans as well:
and desperately sick;
who can understand it?
Jeremiah 17:9
For from within,
out of the heart of man,
come evil thoughts,
Mark 7:21
"Chimps do what comes naturally: murder each other. Who’s to argue if natural selection found it to be an effective strategy?The media are abuzz with the latest “finding” of evolutionary biologists: humans don’t cause chimpanzees to act violently toward each other; it’s their natural evolved behavior. A paper announcing the conclusion in Nature (Wilson et al., “Lethal aggresion in Pan is better explained as adaptive strategies than human impacts”) was discussed in the same issue by Joan B. Silk (Arizona State). She draws the logical conclusion: if aggression is an adaptive strategy in our nearest evolutionary ancestors, then it must be for humans as well:
"In 2013, there were 33 armed state-level conflicts around the world. Many of these had persisted for decades, killed thousands of people and thwarted international peacekeeping efforts. War is certainly a contemporary fixture, but has it always been one?....Debates about the origins and prevalence of human warfare are echoed in the question of whether lethal coalitionary aggression in chimpanzees has evolved through natural selection or whether it is a non-adaptive consequence of human disturbance. In this issue, Wilson et al. (page 414) argue persuasively on the side of adaptation."
With the phrase “natural selection,” Silk points directly to Darwin, who believed the same thing (see 1881 letter, last paragraph). It’s all part of the old “struggle for existence,” he believed; the higher races of man exterminating the lower ones (like the Europeans over the Turks, the illustration he used). He writes as if this is a necessary factor for evolutionary progress." CEH
Now put this Darwinian worldview & train of thought in the hands of a despot leader & see what happens (Hitler, Mao,Pol Pot, Stalin, Lenin, Hussein, etc.)
Simple Natural Selection --OR-- EVIL of the heart?
