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Originally Posted by peter12

Of course, I have a problem with Dawkins et al. saying that evolution is the ultimate purpose of our existence as well.

Darwinism as a scientific theory is excellent and is easily the most imaginative and effective way of taxonomy and explaining the origin of life on this planet. As an all-encompassing ideology it sucks.

From the article that tussery linked to.

Now, to the matter of Darwin. The first thing to say is that natural selection is a scientific theory about the way evolution works in fact. It is either true or it is not, and whether or not we like it politically or morally is irrelevant. Scientific theories are not prescriptions for how we should behave. I have many times written (for example in the first chapter of A Devil's Chaplain) that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to the science of how life has actually evolved, but a passionate ANTI-Darwinian when it comes to the politics of how humans ought to behave. I have several times said that a society based on Darwinian principles would be a very unpleasant society in which to live. I have several times said, starting at the beginning of my very first book, The Selfish Gene, that we should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics. Darwin himself said the same thing, in various different ways. So did his great friend and champion Thomas Henry Huxley.

http://richarddawkins.net/article,24...ichard-Dawkins