Evolution is good science. Evolution is really, really, really, really, really, really bad social theory.
It's a great shame that so many politicians who don't believe in evolution by natural selection are such 'evolutionists' when it comes to their social and economic policy and the 'survival of the fittest.'
BINGO!
The most ardent foes of scientific Darwinism are the most enthusiastic backers of social Darwinism. Those of use who acknowledge the probably reality of scientific Darwinism tend to be the most vigorous opponents of social Darwinism. Talk about irony.
Say what you will about William Jennings Bryan. He may have been scientfically incorrect about the teaching of evolution. But his heart was in the right place. Bryan was much less concerned about protecting the right to teach religion in the schools and pass it off as science. He was worried that teaching scientific Darwinism would feed into an unmitigated war on society's weakest and most defenseless members. Now, his scientifically ideological heirs are the very people whose policies and proposals affirm the sickening old conservative creedo, "I got mine Jack. Now root, hog or die."
