revtec sez: ...
> We have all encountered or at least heard of people who > seem to have no morality. Everything they do is filtered > thru "what will this get for me". Some people who appear to > do good unselfishly are merely angling for a greater good > for themselves in the future. Beyond that there are people > who do good with no chance of compensation. But, some of > these do it simply because of an addiction to the > "warm fuzzies". True compassion and self sacrifice may, > unfortunately, be quite a rare thing. > > Nevertheless, we see and hear of acts of compassion and self > sacrifice on a regular basis that stop us in our tracks, > bring tears to our eyes, reaffirm our faith in humanity, > and make us say to ourselves, "I hope that I am capable of > that". As to I. I suspect most of us fit somewhere in between the extreems of both ends of that statistical bell shaped curve of human action. ;-) > Faith in God draws us upward, but belief in evolution > is a snare that will drag us downward to destruction. > > Jeff Why must faith in God and belief in the theories of Evolution be reduced to an either/or proposition? You make it sound as if to believe in Evolution is to believe in devil's work. The distillation of perceptions into such a black & white sceneario reminds me of when Bush, in the aftermath of 9/11, warned the world that either "you" are with us or "you" are with the terrorists. I don't think it was the terrorists who cringed when they heard Bush's warning. There are, in my view, many forms of life that appear to have through the laws of evolution cultivated the traits of cooperation, self-sacrifice, where the needs of the many come first over the needs of the one. Regards, Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com
