and gave us the edge over the other species (y'know, the ones with massive teeth, claws and thick protective skin) what do you think was the worst thing that came with it?
2007-11-15 06:54:15 · 16 answers · asked by gothicmamma 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As a species, we got the brains, but not the wisdom.
We learned how to split the atom then dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We mastered chemistry and got in to biological warfare. We learn how to preserve life and yet still we indulge more in dispensing death; there is enough for everybody but still the golden few have a great deal while so many more live in need and misery. We take what should be good and make it in to something bad.
The price we pay for letting our heads outgrow our hearts, eh?
2007-11-15 07:47:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Well, you may have never said or printed the words "Science is a religion" other than to deny them, but you did say that you believe evolution is a religion. As Evolution is science, you believe that part of science is a religion. I seriously doubt that you've read "On the Origin of the Species" by Charles Darwin; let alone with an open mind. Most all of the elements that fundamentalist try to claim as unproved or impossible in Evolution were addressed by this book, yet the same old arguments abound; complex organs and such. The truth is that Evolution is a science that has been studied for a great deal of time, with evidence abounding. The fact that religous folk wish to dismiss the evidence, coming up with creative yet illogical refutations does not diminisht the science. Genetics can show progressions of species. I recall when fundamentalists hailed a scientific finding that showed that all humans are related genetically, suggesting a common ancestor, but they never mention that the same science that showed that is used to show how humans are related to other animals. You simply can't have part without the whole. Either you take science or leave it. If you wish to refute an area of science, do yourself the dignity of discovering the facts of that which you wish to refute.
2016-05-23 07:18:44 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ability to think about the world and ask meaningless or self deceiving questions. Attempting to answer them has provided the human race with many a misguided and destructive influence.
Example: If I can make stone axes, bows and arrows, clothing and all these things, then (looking around at the world) who made all this?
2007-11-15 07:01:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Human food.
Don't get me wrong, I like the stuff, but the modern human's bad eating habits are the source of all non-bacterial and non-viral disease, from osteopirosis, to acne, to cancer.
But equally as horrible, their "dominance" over the world, and the extinction of thousands of distinct species.
2007-11-15 07:02:46 · answer #4 · answered by Maitreya 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
massive teeth big claws and thick skin?? so what you saying??......evolution granted us the edge over the people of Basildon. i knew that allready......empathy!!! thats a pain in the @rse dont you think?
2007-11-15 12:18:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Religion
2007-11-15 06:58:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
An inability to use those brains - at least on the part of politicians.
2007-11-15 07:14:36 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I'm with Ralph and Dominic, religion has done nothing but hold us back in our pursuit of knowledge.
2007-11-15 07:02:08 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Religion.
People have murdering other people because an old book of myths says it's OK for 2000 years.
Bad.
2007-11-15 06:57:35 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 8⤊ 1⤋
The awareness of halitosis.
2007-11-15 06:58:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋