... with the realization of a preconceived order which leaves out genuine novelty and response to changing conditions. He says that Behe's emphasis on order is also in tension with the disorder, suffering, cruelty, and tragedy in the world.[xiv] II. INDEPENDENCE No conflict between science and religion can occur if they are completely independent enterprises which differ in their methods, their domains, ... He rejects the attempts of sociobiologists to ground moral judgments in the adaptive value of moral behavior in evolutionary history. He points out that Darwinism has been misused to def...

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... that viruses are capable of rapid evolution, which allows them to overcome antibiotics, and that humanity's disruption of ecosystems threatens to unleash new viruses. He notes that during the first widespread use of antibiotics following World War II, medicine was able to subdue tuberculosis, syphilis and pneumonia-all of which could then be cured with pills or shots if caught in time. But some ... still behave themselves as if they were apart from nature. And the idea that we are somehow apart from the forces of evolution is part of our weakness in the war on disease. We have failed to...

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