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Is the theory of evolution moral and ethical

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As far as I understand they have found a use for the appendix. It isn't a useless vestigial organ.

Researchers now say that the appendix acts as a safe house for good bacteria. The body uses this to essentially “reboot” the digestive system when one suffers from a bout of dysentery or cholera.
http://politicalblindspot.com/scientists-finally-discover-the-function-of-the-human-appendix/

but evolution like to say that life has these left over parts. The same for the junk DNA. This was suppose to be left over Pseudogenes from an evolutionary past. Genes that were parts of the process for mutating new life that collected in our DNA and proof of evolution. But now they have found they have function and this is dispelling that myth just like the vestigial organs. Evolution needs to have theses bits and pieces of non functional useless parts as this is what we would expect to see if evolution is a trial and error random process. In fact we should be seeing it all over the place. Because to get one thing right in evolution you are going to need to get a lot wrong on the way. Thats unless it has design features and then we should see well defined features and creatures without any transitions showing the not so defined connections.
 
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Yes I know what I said. You forget that most of the first scientists were Christian, and none of them believed that they evolved from apes
 
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As far as I understand they have found a use for the appendix. It isn't a useless vestigial organ.

As has been said multiple times in this thread, nobody ever said it was useless. It is vestigial. Vestigial does not mean useless.
 
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I don't get how anything he said implies an end goal.
 
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You are putting words in his mouth.

I understand why you need to do this though.
 
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Yes I know what I said. You forget that most of the first scientists were Christian, and none of them believed that they evolved from apes

I don't believe you ever answered my question, so I will try one more time. If you don't want to answer it, just say so and I will stop asking it:

Is it possible, that your perception of science, is fallible?

Yes, or no?
 
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Copernicus was a Christian and so was Galileo Galilei. A lot of famous scientists were Christians. In fact Sir Francis Bacon is known for establishing the scientific method of inquiry based on experimentation and inductive reasoning. Others such as Isaac Newton and Gregor Mendel who was the first to lay the mathematical foundations of genetics. Albert Einstein wasn't so much a devout Christian but still a believer in God and spirituality. There are plenty more as well and if it wasn't for christian scientists we wouldn't have many great discoveries in science.

Wisdom isn't about science though. Its about wise decisions in life and more about what you do with the science. We could come up with 1000s of examples where the science and tech has been put to bad use with unwise decisions and actions. Even things like money and power being abused and unwise decisions to misuse these things to harm others or make our world a worse off place.

The example in the bible about mans wisdom being foolish to God is about the ways of the world and what the world view thinks makes happiness and peace. We have seen that many base this on a superficial thing and that we have always fallen short of finding real peace. Whereas Gods peace surpasses all understanding and lasts. It is not of this worlds materialism but of storing up riches in heaven.
Matthew 6:19 to 21
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20"But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal; 21for where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
 
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True, but they made their discoveries in spite of their religious beliefs, not because of them. They had to look past what their religion told them and look at the reality of the world.
 
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"add up quantum, semitry, entanglement, bio mechanics n physics"

nuff said bro
Quantum entanglement experience/experiments shows that energy is cognitive to conscious observation but I guess u would say that's subjective lol.
 
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True, but they made their discoveries in spite of their religious beliefs, not because of them. They had to look past what their religion told them and look at the reality of the world.


Maybe you can look past your own religious beliefs and take a look at reality. The bible doesn't contradict the laws of science, so there wasn't anything they needed to look past.
 
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Maybe you can look past your own religious beliefs and take a look at reality. The bible doesn't contradict the laws of science, so there wasn't anything they needed to look past.

Even if I grant you that, they were still just successful scientists who just happened to be Christians. Their Christianity had nothing to do with it. They could have just as easily been any other religion or no religion at all.
 
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Even if I grant you that, they were still just successful scientists who just happened to be Christians. Their Christianity had nothing to do with it. They could have just as easily been any other religion or know religion at all.

That's true, but no one gave credit for science to Christianity. Christians would never invent a theory which says that man evolved from apes.
 
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That's true, but no one gave credit for science to Christianity. Christians would never invent a theory which says that man evolved from apes.

Why do the majority of Christians (including many scientists who are Christians), agree with it then?
 
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Why do the majority of Christians (including many scientists who are Christians), agree with it then?

The majority doesn't believe that. I bet if you took an unbiased poll among Christians, and asked them whether they believed that man evolved from apes, then the majority would say no. They may swallow some ideas from evolution, but surely not that one.

Furthermore, just because one claims to believe in the bible doesn't mean that they are following truth. The Pharisees were very religious, yet they didn't follow the truth. Some of them did I think, but many did not.
 
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The unbiased polls that have been taken indicate otherwise.
 
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A great many polls have been taken and the majority of Christians agree with the theory of evolution.

This is reality, which you are free to deny if it suits you.

Were you going to address my question as to whether your perception of science could be fallible?
 
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Others such as Isaac Newton .....

Newton was non-orthodox, and would have even been considered illegally heterodox for his place and time.


Albert Einstein wasn't so much a devout Christian but still a believer in God and spirituality.

Albert Einstein was raised in a secular Jewish household. In 1954 he wrote, "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly."
 
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