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Originally Posted by The Procrastinator  As an aside it always strikes me as bizarre, to put it mildly, that people who will piously put their hand up for the moral cheerleading squads of Christianity also like to leave things to "market forces" - one of the most amoral forces in existence. Faith in market forces is a strange kind of religion but it seems to be a pretty strong one with many followers. |
Ah, Yes. The finely tuned laws of the marketplace. Unfortunately, it's been a long time since Adam Smith and "The Wealth of Nations".
Does evolution always work well in terms of an "end result" or even as a "process"? Not by a longshot. Just look at the poor orangutan. Specialized to the point of being to his own detriment (notwithstanding environmental issues).
I once had the chance to listen to and speak with Louis Leakey. Even he used the phrase, "the
theory of evolution" (and he pronounced it ee-vo-loo-shun with the accent on the ee). But he wasn't kidding anyone. We all knew what he really thought and we all thought the same.