When you are born a monkey, you are entitled to choose your own path in each & every detail but the general aspect of your life always remains the same; you are & will always be a monkey. Genetics is the real WMD perhaps.
Hey Omid, your blog disappeared for about a week! Glad its working again. :) Well, I don't know about genetics, but the human species is certainly one gigantic WMD! We are waging all out war on the Earth's environment. We are causing a mass extinction the like of which hasn't been seen for tens of millions of years! Most female animals, including monkeys, are fertile only once a year. Unfortunately, human females are 12 times as reproductively efficient. Sometimes I wonder if Neanderthal females were only fertile once a year. That might explain why they went extinct. Anyway, don't get me wrong, overpopulation and environmental destruction is not the fault of women. Its men who invent the religions that try to keep the women barefoot, uneducated, and pregnant. Its men who invent the tools that are destroying our world. I hope its not too late. We need to defuse this giant human WMD. We are not the only form of life on this world that deserves to survive.
what does this imply for religion and the ethics? one cannot escape the conclusion that accepting genetics makes religious claims on freedom of choice, reward and punishment entirely meaningless.
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Hey Omid, your blog disappeared for about a week! Glad its working again. :) Well, I don't know about genetics, but the human species is certainly one gigantic WMD! We are waging all out war on the Earth's environment. We are causing a mass extinction the like of which hasn't been seen for tens of millions of years! Most female animals, including monkeys, are fertile only once a year. Unfortunately, human females are 12 times as reproductively efficient. Sometimes I wonder if Neanderthal females were only fertile once a year. That might explain why they went extinct. Anyway, don't get me wrong, overpopulation and environmental destruction is not the fault of women. Its men who invent the religions that try to keep the women barefoot, uneducated, and pregnant. Its men who invent the tools that are destroying our world. I hope its not too late. We need to defuse this giant human WMD. We are not the only form of life on this world that deserves to survive.
what does this imply for religion and the ethics? one cannot escape the conclusion that accepting genetics makes religious claims on freedom of choice, reward and punishment entirely meaningless.
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