\u2018the human mind was not designed to seek truth but rather to attain evolutionary goals.\u2019 <\/p>\n
I was merely expressing a principle of evolutionary biology that has been of fundamental importance since the revolution inaugurated by G. C. Williams and culminating in E. O. Wilson\u2019s synthesis: Organisms are not designed to communicate truthfully with the others but to persuade them \u2014 to manipulate them to serve their interests.\u201d[5]<\/p>\n
If Ruse is correct, and if the principle of evolutionary biology as described by MacDonald is also correct, then there would be nothing inherently wrong with the Israeli regime applying that very principle for its own survival\u2014that is, through the slaughter and eradication of the Palestinians. In that sense, the Israeli regime, and Benjamin Netanyahu in particular, would be acting in full accordance with the evolutionary principle articulated by MacDonald, which lies at the foundation of sociobiology. <\/p>\n
Yet this is precisely where matters become topsy-turvy for thinkers like MacDonald, for they contend that Jewish political and intellectual movements often employ deception throughout much of the West\u2014an argument that implicitly appeals to a moral standard asserting that one ought not to use deception.<\/p>\n
You see, the moment one begins to deconstruct the metaphysical foundation of morality\u2014as Darwin and his intellectual heirs have done\u2014the inevitable outcome is intellectual inconsistency and incoherence
\nThis is precisely the danger inherent in the Darwinian conception of morality: by denying any transcendent or objective foundation, it renders all moral discourse arbitrary. <\/p>\n
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