Posted by Declan on January 20, 2006, at 13:12:46
In reply to Re: okay so this isn't working out :-( » alexandra_k, posted by Dinah on January 18, 2006, at 20:23:20
I've read further. That's what the Victorians, Darwin himself, agonised about. Evolution is not a happy view of humanity, which, in my opinion does not deserve one. We are an imaginative species, and the same imagination that led to Bach led those german bureaucrats to imagine, and draw up the plans, to desroy 1/3 of the population of the USSR west of the Urals. Imagination cuts both ways. Isn't that the meaning of evil? And isn't that, our imagination, what makes us so much worse (and better, I suppose) than all the other life forms. Why am I angry? I seem to have run away with myself. History? Maybe it's all a bit much.
With peace, hopefully
Declan
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