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1. sapphire (sapphire@shortstacksran.ch)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 08:21:28 JST sapphire
   Hellthread of the day: if you don’t believe in evolution how do you reconcile that with a belief in eugenics?
   
   If things don’t change from generation to generation why are mulattoes a permanent stain on the gene pool?
   • 🎄:architect:elftummy🍟🎄 (elftummy@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 08:21:27 JST 🎄:architect:elftummy🍟🎄

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     @sapphire It's a strawman of evolution critics;
     we don't believe that, and have never suggested that, things cant change generation-to-generation;
     rather, we believe that one animal cannot become a fundamentally different animal given enough time, &/or that complex structures of the body (most common ex.: the eyes) cannot slowly develop over time, but rather had to be designed [by God].
     
     If it makes an evilution-believer feel better, we can call the big fake & gay jewish stuff "Macro Evolution": that is, a primordial ooze eventually becoming a human or whatever
     And we can call regular changes with genetics "Micro Evolution" (or simply, adaptation)
     
     Humans have been writing for ~40,000 years, and yet no human has ever seen macro evolution.
   • CatSoc :nv: (catlord@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 08:21:27 JST CatSoc :nv:

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     • 🎄:architect:elftummy🍟🎄
     @elftummy @sapphire I don't understand why this stuff is tied up with religion. Why not just see God as the grand designer of morphology and creating the universal laws such that the forms he desires emerge, in the first place.
   • 🎄:architect:elftummy🍟🎄 (elftummy@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 15-Apr-2024 08:21:33 JST 🎄:architect:elftummy🍟🎄

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     • CatSoc :nv:
     @CatLord @sapphire (I was in church so I couldn't respond right away)
     If one believes that God created the universal laws in which everything eventually emerged through macro evolution et al., it denies what is written in Genesis, but even more importantly it takes away the agency from Him.
     Instead of an involved God who creates the world and the animals etc himself, it's like he puts a program together, turns it on, and then walks away.
     This idea is closer to the atheist belief that the world is actually a computer simulation (but they would never say who made the simulation :soy1:)
     Or it's similar to mormonism