2007-01-30 05:09:27 · 15 answers · asked by STFU Dude 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Hasn't anyone noticed that all the right wing Republians LOVE natural selection for economics? Isn't that ironic?
2007-01-30 05:12:42 · update #1
Yeah! 99% of species once on the earth are now extinct. Sounds like "good planning" to me!
2007-01-30 05:13:11 · answer #1 · answered by Laptop Jesus 2.0 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I think a planned economy would be better than a free market, but the only problem is we can't find anybody yet smarter to do the planning than the participants in the free market. The Soviets and many others have tried planning in detail the economy, but the planning has been found dumber than the planning done by people on their own in a free market. Of course, you have to remember that even in the "free market" their is significant planning and regulation going on. Bridges, interstates, and various quasi-governmental groups do allot of infrastructure economic work. And many gov't regulatory, criminal, banking groups do allot of planning within any "free" market society.
Now to comparing all of that above to intelligent design and natural selection could be a little opaque. Even if their is a "God" of trillions of years old who created creation with an intelligent design within that billions of year framework a natural selection could still be occurring within and at the same time.
So in reality we may be having natural selection within an intelligent design and likewise a planned economy within a free market or even visa-versa. In any event I don't know what is really happening or which if any is any "better", but we do "know "something is happening. Good luck on figuring out these small problems out.
2007-01-30 13:28:42 · answer #2 · answered by dumb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok, you really can't compare the two...
In a free market a man would have more liberty, more freedom than in a planned economy where his father has a shoe maker and he will be too. It is anti-thetical to the American way of thought, because a planned economy is an aristocratic concept or certainly develops into an aristocratic paradigm.
Intelligent design is simply, God Made it. Natural Selection is simply, It happened on it's own...
Economics, government, social liberties, et cetera all collide when you try to simplify it as you did.
2007-01-30 13:20:15 · answer #3 · answered by TK421 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who said that intelligent design is a better theory than natural selection? I don't see how a planned economy is analogous to intelligent design. How can a bunch of limited economists be compared to an unlimited source?
2007-01-30 13:17:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lysenko missed the boat on ID. If he had come up with it, the Soviet Union wouldn't have lasted long enough for there to be a Cold War.
2007-01-30 13:29:55 · answer #5 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually it is a very good observation. Life needs plasticity to adapt to new circumstaces, that is why mammals inherited the earth after a comet hit it 65 million years ago. A rigidly designed form of life would be extinct by now.
2007-01-30 13:13:37 · answer #6 · answered by fourmorebeers 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
"Free will" is part of intelligent design - a planned economy seeks to suppress it.
A free market is a more intelligent.
2007-01-30 13:29:27 · answer #7 · answered by theBeloved 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If God was running the planned market it would be
2007-01-30 13:12:10 · answer #8 · answered by TULSA 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
you are right.
The Russian Communist party also refused to accept Darwinian evolution, for the same reason you cite - it is too much like capitalism.
2007-01-30 13:29:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I really wish Yahoo Q & A would bring back the "thumbs down" for stupid questions.
2007-01-30 13:14:28 · answer #10 · answered by Bags 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋