Evolution is a Good Thing

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The Law assumes that most of us have a certain amount of 'free will' but not too much. The law is even willing to grant some of us the 'insanity excuse.' Law is much more flexible in these matters than religion. Why is that? Obviously, Law evolves whereas Religion stagnates. Evolution is a good thing.

It would seem to follow that the older a religion is the more it stinks in the ethical realm. Take, for example, the ancient punishment for theft: amputation of the 'thieving hand.' Good thing? Probably not, at least not in the economic sense, and economics is an important modern consideration. The failure of Muslim societies which practice 'Sharia Law' is a good example of old and odius religion failing to understand modern economics. The notion that, 'relegating fully half their population (women) to ignorant menialism fatally cripples them economically' still seems to be escaping them. Idiots!

Which brings us to China. China has no history of fundamentalist religion. Confucianism and Buddahism were merely suggestions, not The Infallible, Changeless Word of God. Therefore, China had no history of 'fundamentalism' to put limits on its evolutionary processes, and as a result it now buys fully half of the world output of cement.