[citation][nom]IndignantSkeptic[/nom]I think you are dangerously misinformed. As long as you're not in the government then your belief on Darwin won't be too dangerous to humanity though. I think I've heard there are a few people in the world who believe that AIDS and Cancer were not discovered, but invented by scientists. I think you'll find all kinds of wacky completely opposing beliefs in the world. You can't just listen to a few people and believe they are correct. You can't even listen to the majority and believe they are correct.Darwin's theory of evolution is most probably close enough to the truth of reality that we should accept that we immediately need to move on to the next step which is to try to find a solution to this problem. That is probably going to involve gaining the ability to carefully edit the DNA in all cells of an adult multicellular organism and that is going to require technology which is very much more advanced than what we have so far, so we are going to need to push very much harder on technological advancement. Obviously why would the people in power push for a solution to a problem when they don't even accept that this problem exists in reality in the first place.[/citation]
Really now, how am I misinformed? Also, what does this have to do with AIDS and cancer and how do they even relate to what I said? I simply stated that evolution and such are ideas that humans made up in an attempt to understand life and how it has changed and continues to change. Evolution still has some holes and questions left unanswered and even if it didn't, who are we to say that there would never be reason to question it in the future?
I pointed out that we don't really "know" anything as much as we come up with ideas that fit into something. Evolution could be completely wrong, but still looks like it fits the bill right now and we would never realize this until we had the means to check and we actually go about checking with said means. AIDS may have been created by scientists (I don't think so, but you brought it up) and it wouldn't be easy to prove or disprove this. In order to more or less prove that we didn't create it, we would need to find evidence of it having infected people before we had the means to do something like it. Since the governments all keep quiet about what they really know, who knows when we had the means? I do think that it is safe to say that if we find conclusive evidence of someone having AIDS two or three hundred years ago then it's fairly safe to say that we didn't create it. Is there such proof? I don't know and I don't particularly care right now.
Evolution may be close to the truth (it probably is), but it might not. Ignoring the possibility of it not being correct for any reason is intentional ignorance.
You can't just listen to a few people and believe they are correct. You can't even listen to the majority and believe they are correct.
That is part of what I said. Now tell me where I said that anyone was correct about anything. My whole point was that we don't know much of anything for sure despite humans often thinking they are right (often ignoring any evidence to the contrary) and assuming that evolution is absolutely correct is just as wrong as assuming that it is absolutely wrong. To this day we still have evidence that shows us that in its current form, the theory of evolution does not always work. Most of the time when evidence against it surfaces the evidence gets hidden and/or ignored.
You want the ability to change DNA of many cells in an organism in such a manner? The only way I can see us doing something like that is through a virus or similar manner. The potential for misuse is blatantly obvious and where there is potential for misuse, there will be misuse.
As a species, humans tend to believe that they know much more than they really do. Knowing is just another idea... Another concept that we invented. We make concepts to organize and structure the world in ways that we can understand. They aren't always actually how things work and are often very far from the truth, but some (how many depending on the concept) people believe in them nonetheless, at least for a while.
I have no belief in Darwin so saying I do is wrong. He came up with his theory of evolution (or is at least accredited with it) and I acknowledged that. If that makes me a overzealous conspiracy theorist in your eyes then perhaps it is you that could be a danger.
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