Carol:

I'm not sure how you meant your paragraph as copied from above:

Big difference there, Nerd. The evolutionary model suggests that humans are the pinnacle of development and that our place on the evolutionary ladder makes us of intrinsically greater value than the rest of creation. And the biblical philosophies that have been the engine of our current way of life are that humankind is the pinnacle and that we have a right to do whatever we wish with all of the rest of creation.

If you meant it satirically, well and good, but it's not clear to me. The evolutionary 'model' currently in vogue, derived from Darwin, called "theory of natural selection" suggest no such thing. There is a noticeable trend for the development of complexity but at the same time there is no devolution of simplicity. The idea of 'improvement' 'advancement' 'pinnacle' of evolution is a value judgment which is better left untried. It results in the damaging theories such as 'social Darwinism' which is just as much a perversion of science as is extremism a perversion of religion.

Theory of Natural Selection simply states that the constant motor driving the bus of nature is powered by genetic mutation, that which survives and reproduces the most dominates the next generation and here we are.

But I know you are a thinking person, Carol, so possibly that is what you meant all along.

'Slo' Robo