>Glenn Morton gives it the old college try:
>
Thanks Jim. I appreciate the acknowledgement of the effort. As an exercise in
debate, that was too interesting a question to pass up.
><< And since
>societies also evolve, a society that attacks itself is less fit than a
>society which does not do that. Hitler used the organs of state to kill
> off
>some of the brainiest and most industrious people in his own society. Thus
>his society was much less fit (as history showed) than ours which did not
>engage in self-cannibalism.>>
>
>Sorry, but Hitler saw it in different terms. He saw himself purging society
> of detritus. In evolutionary terms, you can't prove him wrong.
>
>On moral terms, of course, you can. But that's the point: Our moral terms
> come
>from a moral source. Evolutionism doesn't have that available to it.
>
>I admire your courage on this one. No philosopher would have attempted it.
I am not a philosopher; merely a geophysicist.
glenn
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