TheFarleys wrote:The problem with morals Mike is that they are different for different people. Something that is against your morals might be perfectly acceptable to other people in other places. Morals are also fluid and change over time.
In regards to the SC decisions, it comes down to whether you believe in a state's sovereignty versus the nation as a whole. As we all know many people in the south did (and still do) believe that a state should be able to determine its own course on things such as education and abortion. That fight goes back to the civil war, as we all recall from school. Others might argue that states are just relics from an earlier time and that the entire country should be considered when deciding these issues.
As you correctly pointed out, States Rights was the cause of the War of Northern Aggression.
And that was where the USA lost it's direction. Let them argue "relics" if they want, local communities should have the right to decide their own morality, short of violence, according to the principles of the Constitution...which says nothing about abortion no matter how twisted the ruling of a few Judges in Roe v Wade in 1973 was. No way the founding Fathers envisioned murdering a child a "protected right", so the entire debate is laying on a foundation of fraud.
As to evolution, it's hardly junk science. In fact the theory is one of the most tested - and accepted - in all of science. The Catholic Church has even accepted and stated that evolution is real and correct. I would encourage you to read any of the writings of Ernst Mayer if you really want to learn about it. Given that life began on this planet 3.5 billion years ago it more than explains the diversity we see.
The Catholic Church once forced scientists to accept the flat earth theory, too. I really do not see the Vatican as an authority on much of anything. Too much corruption and compromise in their history....which is what turned me into an atheist at age 15. I mean, the current Pope is an environmental whacko!?
But junk science aside, it is still a "theory" that contradicts science itself, including the second law of thermodynamics.
Do species evolve over time? Sure, no problem with that, but there is still no evidence of a "missing link" species evolving into another species. There are assumed transitional forms used as "proof", and there are presumed links between dinosaurs and birds...but no real proof. Speculation from a scientist might be a good educated guess, but it doesn't qualify as "fact" yet.
So there are still too many holes in the evolutionary theory to accept it as the full explanation of where we come from.
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