You obviously don’t know much about about the US and its politics, since roughly 50% of the American population agrees with you about the terribleness and destructiveness of war, and seek to eliminate it as quickly as possible. Part of the reason Obama’s ratings are so poor in the US at the moment is because he has not pulled the troops out of Iraq/Afghanistan quickly enough.
It would be worth spending some time in different parts of the US for a while, or even just reading news from multiple news agencies to get a better picture of the opinions of the American people. Pretty much all of the wars the US has ever been involved in have had this duplicitous nature. It’s not so much a double standard as it is multiple personalities.
Also, even after reading your post I have no idea what the US’s position on war has to do with this discussion on evolution. I don’t see why a discussion on evolution should necessarily contain within it any discussion on US military policy. Is there some reason we can’t discuss evolution without discussion modern military activities? If so, I don’t see it, and you didn’t really point it out to me.
Lastly, I don’t see how we can have a discussion that doesn’t involve population genetics, considering it is a critical component of modern evolutionary theory. It’s like saying we shouldn’t talk about space-time when discussing General Relativity. It really doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
I’m curious how a process that takes billions of iterations over millions of years to produce anything interesting can reasonably be considered anything but blind and slow. Trying new things at random is kinda the definition of blind in these situations (regardless of how efficient the selection mechansim may be), and taking three and a half billion years to great humans seems pretty slow, subjectively. What alternative process is it quicker and more insightful than? Certainly not a designer that did the job in 6 days (aka Intelligent Design/Creationism).
As for the ethnocentricity, ID is largely a problem in the US, so that shouldn’t be a surprise. Other countries have done a pretty good job of figuring out how well evolution works, and that it is therefore probably correct. We still have 50% of the population here holding us back in that regard (evolution is winning anyway, though—it’s pretty hard to deny it).
You obviously don’t know much about about the US and its politics, since roughly 50% of the American population agrees with you about the terribleness and destructiveness of war, and seek to eliminate it as quickly as possible. Part of the reason Obama’s ratings are so poor in the US at the moment is because he has not pulled the troops out of Iraq/Afghanistan quickly enough.
It would be worth spending some time in different parts of the US for a while, or even just reading news from multiple news agencies to get a better picture of the opinions of the American people. Pretty much all of the wars the US has ever been involved in have had this duplicitous nature. It’s not so much a double standard as it is multiple personalities.
Also, even after reading your post I have no idea what the US’s position on war has to do with this discussion on evolution. I don’t see why a discussion on evolution should necessarily contain within it any discussion on US military policy. Is there some reason we can’t discuss evolution without discussion modern military activities? If so, I don’t see it, and you didn’t really point it out to me.
Lastly, I don’t see how we can have a discussion that doesn’t involve population genetics, considering it is a critical component of modern evolutionary theory. It’s like saying we shouldn’t talk about space-time when discussing General Relativity. It really doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
I’m curious how a process that takes billions of iterations over millions of years to produce anything interesting can reasonably be considered anything but blind and slow. Trying new things at random is kinda the definition of blind in these situations (regardless of how efficient the selection mechansim may be), and taking three and a half billion years to great humans seems pretty slow, subjectively. What alternative process is it quicker and more insightful than? Certainly not a designer that did the job in 6 days (aka Intelligent Design/Creationism).
As for the ethnocentricity, ID is largely a problem in the US, so that shouldn’t be a surprise. Other countries have done a pretty good job of figuring out how well evolution works, and that it is therefore probably correct. We still have 50% of the population here holding us back in that regard (evolution is winning anyway, though—it’s pretty hard to deny it).