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What the Hell, Hero
Oct. 7th, 2009 07:57 pmI have an hour of bible study every Wednesday, okay? Before we got started, Meridith mentioned how excited she was for the Richard Dawkins lecture next Monday. Then Sophie mentioned that she was sad she she couldn't go, because she wanted to hear his rationalization of the evolutionist view of universal health care.
I was the first one to speak. I stammered out, "But... but he's British!"
Cue pretty much the entire time for the three of us to try to persuade Sophie that universal health care and evolution are not incomparable. She had the impression that if you think evolution ( especially macro ) evolution exist, then you also must follow the philosophical school thought of egoism, as acting contrary to that fact would be against the doctrine of the survival of the fittest.
It basically summed up to two problems. The first is that evolutionary theory does not adequately explain explain the development of kindness. I talked about some examples about why it would be advantageous to your genes to be altruistic: such as while it's not directly your genes, looking after the well being of a niece or nephew would also continue your gene line.
The other problem is that Sophie needs to study the theory of evolution a bit more. She got tangled up in her mind evolutionary theory and social Darwinism. Which are not the same thing, as one is a conclusion based upon observations and one is an excuse to treat people like crap.
This all sums up why I like Sophie. We come to the same conclusions, even though our thought processes are very, very different.
I was the first one to speak. I stammered out, "But... but he's British!"
Cue pretty much the entire time for the three of us to try to persuade Sophie that universal health care and evolution are not incomparable. She had the impression that if you think evolution ( especially macro ) evolution exist, then you also must follow the philosophical school thought of egoism, as acting contrary to that fact would be against the doctrine of the survival of the fittest.
It basically summed up to two problems. The first is that evolutionary theory does not adequately explain explain the development of kindness. I talked about some examples about why it would be advantageous to your genes to be altruistic: such as while it's not directly your genes, looking after the well being of a niece or nephew would also continue your gene line.
The other problem is that Sophie needs to study the theory of evolution a bit more. She got tangled up in her mind evolutionary theory and social Darwinism. Which are not the same thing, as one is a conclusion based upon observations and one is an excuse to treat people like crap.
This all sums up why I like Sophie. We come to the same conclusions, even though our thought processes are very, very different.
