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Sunday July 1, 2007 - 1:06PM EDT
Why Doesn't Evolution Get Rid of Ugly People?
That is another blogger and not a news story but still I feel obligated to rip their half-brained reasoning since it was linked from a major news site. The initial idea presented in the beginning has to do with "problems" with evolutionary theory. Well the the problem is that the writer has such a rudimentary and unscientific understanding of evolutionary theory that the problems are mainly in their own mind. The main problem is that the writer refuses to even touch on the fact that the issue is the question of what exactly "bad" is. Bad is simply a human idea that differentiates in meaning from person to person. Evolutionary theory as a standalone doesn't consider the term "bad" because it is horribly unscientific. They cite some paradox the is explained away by biologist from some reason or another. The only paradox is in the mind of the person that doesn't understand evolution, not in evolution itself. First off scientific theory is by it own nature never complete so to assume that evolution is a perfectly complete explanation is the mark of a fool. Of course to assume that there is anything else that fits better is the mark of an even bigger fool, but that is neither here nor there for this topic. Now I do see that they are trying somewhat to question what "bad" is but still asking the original question is a fairly worthless exercise and in the article they are not emphasizing that. The simply take a different route and answer their question with some clever reasoning. I would have liked to have seen the article lay waste to this common human idea about the perfection of nature. It is ruinous, this idea to our understanding and maybe even to our survival. Modern evolutionary theory does lay waste to that craptastic idea of natural perfection. Besides perfection again is another human ideal that we have transposed on to our surroundings. We take it much to far and it is to the detriment of our continue understanding.