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Natural Evolution

It is fairly an infraction for believing that we (the Homo Homo sapiens) are far beyond those creatures, residing on mother earth, our Gaia, and that our moral stance on anything and everything is just and fair. Most scholars may choose to side with this argument that states: “Animals have rights as do human beings,” but I shall take a different approach to this dilemma, one much more critical and scientific. Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection clearly negates the “animal rights” argument presented by Francis Fukuyama’s Our Post human Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution.

“In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment (Charles Darwin (1809 - 1882), The Origin of Species 1859).” It is clearly implausible to conclude that our use of animals in biological experiments is immoral and inhumane; therefore we must cease our research in such ...

Posted by: Anthony Pacella

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