Based on archaeological work in Oaxaca, Mexico, where her team examined burned structures, she feels that raiding, and later warfare, emerged where people organized into clans that competed over resources. Group violence was presumably rare in hunter-gatherer societies.
The conclusions being drawn from this archaeological study is “political” science in the Marxist tradition.
The conclusions being drawn from this archaeological study is “political” science in the Marxist tradition.
Hunter-gatherers of the world, unite!
Throw off the bourgeoisie with their clay pots
and fired-brick dwellings.
Science? Worthless.
----Empirically, all these scientists found was evidence for sin, the same old selfishness and pride that is with us today.
----Empirically, all these scientists found was evidence for sin, the same old selfishness and pride that is with us today.
Building on Darwin’s foundation of evolution, some reporters are spinning the story to fit a political ideology. The liberal “political” scientists in today’s universities, assuming evolution as the foundation for all of reality, want to pin the blame for war on externals.
It’s the disparity between the rich and the poor that is the root of
conflict, they say.
They organize people into oppressors and oppressed, usurpers and victims. Affluence is the root of social injustice. Now that we can take control of our own evolution, we can overcome the territoriality of our reptilian past. But first we must overthrow the oppressors by revolution, and establish a dictatorship of the proletariat. Once we learn to share our resources like good communists, we will achieve social justice in a classless society – utopia.
Don’t believe it. The moment Joe finds something in utopia that Moe wants, whether a leaf, a sparkling rock, or a fruit hanging from a tree, the world will be on the brink of war all over again. The twentieth century should have seen the death of 19th-century utopian dreams of innocence.
Don’t believe it. The moment Joe finds something in utopia that Moe wants, whether a leaf, a sparkling rock, or a fruit hanging from a tree, the world will be on the brink of war all over again. The twentieth century should have seen the death of 19th-century utopian dreams of innocence.
War did not evolve.
It is innate.
It stems from a human characteristic formed not by natural selection, but by design: the choice to disobey the Creator (i.e., sin). “For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies,” said Jesus Christ in Matthew 15:15-20.
James echoed the idea that war begins internally: “What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions.” (James 4:1-3, ESV).
Enmity started with the first man and woman, and manifested itself in the first generation, when Cain murdered his brother.
War must be cured from the inside out by a heart transplant, through reconciliation with the Creator, the Author of justice and the Prince of peace."
CEH
