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Originally Posted by ARTelevision
My problems with a Darwinian notion of “progress” as applied everywhere is not religious – it is aesthetic and more generally, philosophical. I have a sense that if we could purge the hopelessly lopsided and problematic idea of “human progress” from all of the frameworks in which it does not belong, we’d be the better for it.
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Art, I would echo
fckm's comments. It sounds like you don't have a problem with a Darwinian notion of progress. Darwinian evolution is not directional. From a Darwinian perspective, we are not any "better" than our early hominid ancestors- just different.