I once had an interaction with a man on the Internet who called himself   
   Danimal. He was a firm evolutionist, yet he believed that the problem with the   
   world was that “the freaks do not know their place.” As an evolutionist he   
   would have known that    
   the evolutionary process – if there is an evolutionary process – is driven   
   by mutation. In human world what this means is that the people whom he regards   
   to be “freaks” are the ones who come up with all the innovation that moves   
   the world forward.   
      
   Now evolutionary theory can be used for all sorts of things, many of them not   
   good at all. There are some in the Nazi movement who think that races have   
   evolved for their place in the ecosystem and should not mix. They are dead   
   wrong about that. When    
   races mix they give each other their best genes, and the children inherit the   
   best of both races involved in the mix. The most beautiful populations in the   
   world – Ethiopians and Venezuelans – are products of racial mix.   
      
   Still more wrongdoing we see with people who think that only the strong   
   survive. There are people in rural Mexico who believe this, so they've worked   
   out an arrangement toward that effect. A man would come home and beat his   
   wife, and she would make him    
   super-spicy food and tease him when he would tear up. To the best of my   
   knowledge, rural Mexico does not run the world. In fact many people in such   
   situations complain about the gringos and the multinationals; and complaining   
   is not a behavior of strong    
   people. The correct response to that is that the world requires contributions   
   of all sorts of people, most of whom would be strong in some ways and not in   
   others. That Bill Gates cannot defeat Mike Tyson in a boxing match does not   
   mean that he is not fit    
   to live.   
      
   Another bad use of the evolutionary theory has been Social Darwinism – that   
   a population that conquers another population is superior. That is not always   
   the case. They may simply have better weapons or better military practices but   
   be light years    
   behind in other respects. Genghis Khan and his descendants were able to   
   conquer cities in China and Russia that were far ahead of Mongols   
   economically. The Spanish conquered the Incas; but the Incas had architecture,   
   agriculture and infrastructure far    
   superior to that of the Spanish. Having better weapons does not mean that you   
   are better. You are better in one pursuit. It does not mean that you are   
   better in all of them.   
      
   More important is an argument that, to the best of my knowledge, has not been   
   made before. There is the power to destroy – as we see in Genghis Khan and   
   the Spanish above – and there is the power to create. It takes one bullet to   
   kill a person. It    
   takes trillions of cells to make one. Power to destroy can become power to   
   subdue others, but it does not become power to create others. Not even the   
   people who know how to build nuclear bombs can create a human body or an   
   Amazonian rainforest. Until one    
   can create things of such nature, not even the power to destroy them gives one   
   the right to see oneself superior to them. The power to create is far more   
   important than the power to destroy. And it is time that it be recognized and   
   rewarded accordingly.   
      
   A person who parses the evolutionary theory correctly will draw much different   
   conclusions. One will be that the process is driven by mutation; which in   
   human society means that it is the “freaks” that contribute the most   
   original things. Another is    
   that the process requires contributions of all sorts of people, and weakness   
   in one area does not preclude being valuable in any number of others. Finally,   
   life requires all sorts of things, and having destructive power is not   
   comparable to having    
   creative power.   
      
   So it is time that wrongful implications of evolutionary theory be reversed.   
   Support ingenuity and innovation; support diversity; and support the power to   
   create. And as a result of this see the human species advance beyond all its   
   previous limitations    
   and build on its genius and its efforts to achieve the heights never thought   
   possible.   
      
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