DNA Supports African Origin of Man

[ChinoCoug]

Originally Posted by woot

Again, I'm talking about the political movement, and I'm not sure what your point is. They can claim anything they want and have as much diversity within their movement as they want, but until they start doing experiments, making testable claims, making predictions, etc., they aren't science and must be kept out of the science classroom.

I agree with this last statement. But then why did you say earlier that science encompasses the study of morality?

[woot]

Originally Posted by ChinoCoug

I agree with this last statement. But then why did you say earlier that science encompasses the study of morality?

In this thread? I doubt I said such a thing, unless I was referring to the social sciences. There's no question that philosophy and social science (the disciplines concerned with morality) are heavily informed by science, but science itself is not solely responsible for studying morality. Signs point to morality having slowly "evolved" over millions of years, somewhat in concert with biological evolution and more recently along with cultural development and civilization. It would be foolish not to take such things into consideration in a discussion of the origins of morality.