Assertion 6.10: The teaching of evolution is responsible for immorality, because evolution says that people are just animals.
Analysis:
Evolution teaches no such thing. The evolutionary history of life does indeed reveal that humans are animals, as the human species is a branch of the animal kingdom (what else could we be? Plants? Bacteria?), but it is only creationists who add the "just." Our origin, whether the opulent origin of creationism, or the humble origin of evolution, does not change who we are now. Although many creatures have strange and fantastic abilities, I do not think it is mere "speciesism" to say that humans possess the most sophisticated powers of all, powers that rest largely in our advanced ability to reason. That a distant ancestor walked on all fours, and that a very distant ancestor might be characterized as mere slime, does not efface Shakespeare or Newton from the history of our world.
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