I could have predicted this. Now the 'scientists' are claiming that liberals and atheists are higher on the evolutionary scale than those conservative and religious people....
This is total hogwash and another attempt by the scientists to gain power for themselves. Scientists are trying to make themselves the new priests of society. This has been foreseen by many visionaries and it seems they were correct.
Science is only another tool in the hands and minds of humans. It is not the answer to all of lifes problems, it is not something to build life around. Science is a creation of man, just like the computer and the hammer. Science is not perfect and often provides answers which are dangerous to human life. Scientists are human and they have human failings and they often make decisions which don't necessarily correspond to the evidence which is before them. And as we have recently witnessed in the global warming myth, scientists often distort numbers and create data to fit their theories.
Look at what National Geographic says:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100303-liberals-atheists-smarter-evolution-evolved/
Maggie Koerth-Baker
for National Geographic News
Published March 3, 2010
Your apelike ancestors probably aren't top of mind when you enter the polling booth. But a new study suggests that human evolution may have a big influence on whether you're liberal or conservative—not to mention how smart you are, whether you believe in G-d, or whether you've got a cheatin' heart.
It's all linked to the evolution of intelligence, says author Satoshi Kanazawa, an evolutionary psychologist at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
(Also see "Future Humans: Four Ways We May, or May Not, Evolve.")
Kanazawa's theory is that intelligence—particularly our ability for on-the-spot problem solving and reasoning—arose as an adaptation to deal with the unusual and unexpected, such as a sudden forest fire.
Since disasters like that are rare in daily life, responding to them wouldn't likely be something our ancestors were hard-wired to "know" how to do. Surviving the fire required both the ability to think up a new behavior, and the willingness to try it out.
Passed down via genetics, those two traits are still the calling cards of an intelligent brain—expressed as a tendency toward adopting nontraditional social values and preferences, Kanazawa says in his new study, published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.
I do not believe the findings of these so-called scientists. There is no such thing biologically as a Conservative nor a Liberal. You see, I started my political career as a Conservative, and I then spent 20 years as a liberal, and now once again I am finding myself on the Conservative side of the equation. I have been quite open minded about things for much of my life, but I realize that I was mistaken about many things.
But for the scientists to claim that they are evolutionarily on a higher plane than those who are skeptical of what is being called science today... Is this not the ultimate form of chutzpah?
PS: The idea that politics are passed through DNA is preposterous... My father was a lifelong Republican conservative and my mother a lifelong democrat, who has recently recanted her democrat credentials and switched to the right side.... I think my parents parents were all democrats so what does this mean according to the genetics?
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