Natural Selection And Man's Search For Meaning, By Howard Zimmer

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In this reading, Zimmer talks about how Darwinism is wrong and dangerous. He supports it with a few examples. He stated, "Only if God had directly created mankind in His image was there any basis for morality. Darwinism seemed to render mankind nothing more than an animal." But what's the difference between natural selection and man's power of selection? We used to believe that natural selection was good, but as society advances in technology, we thrive on unnatural things such as valuing people who take risks (survivor of the fittest). That doesn't mean anything if one specie survive while the other die. An example to this is the black and white moths. In the past the air pollution was horrible and a bunch of white moths are easily spotted