Evilution

Some would argue that since we no longer are as threatened by death in or day to day lives as we used to be, our evolution has slowed down or seized completely. We no longer depend on our physical or mental capabilities to keep us from being eaten alive by a mammoth or being excluded from our group, kicked out of the cave, and die of starvation. At least most of us don’t. But there are still people that are subjected to natural selection. It is the people who climb into tiger dens at the zoo, who walk up to a huge piece of firework to see why it didn’t go off, or that monk that recently got killed by his own lawn mover.

But sadly, there are not enough dangers nowadays to fuel the cleansing evolutionary fire. It does not take much intelligence at all to grow old anymore. And even if you don’t even have enough of it to tie your own shoe laces, your parents won’t kick you out of the cave or drown you in the river. No the only contemporary danger with the ability of weeding out the feeble minded seems to be traffic accidents. And as you can see in the list below it only stands for 2.3 percent of all deaths in moderate to well developed countries.


Ischemic Heart Disease 12.4%
Cerebrovascular Disease 9.2%
Lower Respiratory Infections 6.9%
HIV/AIDS 5.3%
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 4.5%
Perinatal conditions 4.4%
Diarrhoeal Diseases 3.8%
Tuberculosis 3.0%
Road Traffic Injuries 2.3%
Trachea, Bronchus, Lung Cancers 2.2%


And since the most common type of accident is a collision between two vehicles, there is a good chance that the idiots who drive too fast or recklessly will take a person with normal or high intelligence with them to the afterlife. You might argue that it’s not only stupid people who drive fast or recklessly. No, of course it’s not, but give me a break, I’m not writing a scientific essay here. I just want to make two points about evolution.

Point no 1: The results of if might be slow, but it’s happening.. all the time! So watch out! (Note: Since all of my readers are higly intellectual, none of you run the risk of being victims of natural selection)

Point no 2: It is evil. It is evil because it weeds out the weakest. And therefore it contradicts the notion of a loving god.

Some religious people would say that evolution is just a scientific theory and not a fact of life, and that all of the binding evidence in the form of fossils, were placed there by god to test our faith. Even if that was the case I wouldn’t worship a god who plays with dirty tricks like that. It’s like sending an anonymous flirtatious mail to your girlfriend to test her loyalty. It is not worthy of an all-knowing, all-powerful god, and it is very close to being in contradiction with his own commandment nr 8, “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour”, which at least to Roman Catholics and Lutherans, is interpreted as the interdiction of lying.

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