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Created from Animals
From Bishop Wilberforce in the 1860s to the advocates of "creation science" today, defenders of traditional mores have condemned Darwin's theory of evolution as a threat to society's values. Darwin's defenders, like Stephen Jay Gould, have usually replied that there is no conflict between science and religion--that values and biological facts occupy separate realms. But as...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
October 28th 1999
by Oxford University Press, USA
(first published 1990)
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Well, here is one man who understands the implications of Darwinism, without fear. (So also Peter Singer) Rachels rightly understands that Darwinism leads to the rejection of theism as a basis for moral values. In the same way, it leads to a rejection of human dignity and a "rights" basis for morality.
So, now that we have dispensed with God, we definitely suffer a de-valuing of human significance. Since Darwin, we now see that man is just a more sophisticated development of the animal kingdom, a...more
So, now that we have dispensed with God, we definitely suffer a de-valuing of human significance. Since Darwin, we now see that man is just a more sophisticated development of the animal kingdom, a...more
What can I say? Nearly sums up my world view and the natural conclusions one draws when recognizing our progenitors are in fact close at hand and all around us. Reminds us also of the great humaneness of Darwin and just how strikingly beautiful his temperament was to those he knew and even the non-humans he encountered [his trigger-happy youth notwithstanding]. Whether Rachels' thoughts on moral individualism were articulated perfectly or likely to be adopted any time in my lifetime will remain...more
Collection of essays I picked up in college during an environmental ethics course. I have generally found essays somewhat dry but this book is fascinating in it's arguments. For example, the section on the differences between humans and animals yields this:"How could anyone seriously believe that animals do not feel pain? After all, we have virtually the same evidence for animal pain that we have for human pain......So, on what grounds could anyone possible say animals are insensitive to pain?"...more
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