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"Many conservative Christians believe that evolution is a dangerous, insidious idea because it makes lifemeaningless. Add to this fear the notion that our thoughts and feelings are mere productsof our brains and evolutionary neuroscience seems like a serious threat to God’s supremacy.[...]Moreover, Darwin’s view of life need not produce a meaningless void. Instead, it helps to clarify our relationships with other humans, other species, and our environment.Those relationships, in turn, give meaning to ourlives, just as linguistic relationships give meaningto our words." Jon H Kaas."Evolutionary Neuroscience"
"Science, that gives man hope to live without lies
Or blast himself off the earth; curb science
Until morality catches up?
But look:
At present morality is running rapidly retrograde,
You’d have to turn science, too, back to the witch doctors,
the myth drunkards. Besides that,
Morality is not an end in itself; truth is an end.
To seek the truth is better than good works, better than survival,
Holier than innocence, and higher than love."
—Robinson Jeffers, “Curb Science?”
Dr. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran