How scientific theories guide our beliefs:Evolution in perspective

I have always wondered why there are so many diverse opinions and ideologies that people believe in. And why few bother to know which ideology actually is true or nearest to it. Do we really lack that particular reference of absolute truth or are we never going to get it?

A little thought into this gave me an answer to my question. Our ideologies are more or less related to the scientific theories we believe in. In this blog, I am going to talk about evolution theory particularly.

Evolution is a theory, a perspective of how humans could have come on this earth to grow as intelligent species. Now the movement you accept the theory you tend to leave the religion because almost every religion (at least Abrahamic ones) believe in our common ancestor. That is the first difference of ideology: A step towards atheism or agnosticism. A belief that rationale is a creation of time, not divine, evolving continuously . That is just the moment you start believing in this theory that a divide is created.

Let’s move further. To say that Humans Evolved from stupid creatures to intelligent species, it is imperative that human history is full of errors, at least in comparison to present. There goes another fragmentation of ideology : Our belief in human history and our conviction to draw inspiration from it. How can we take inspiration from the past when we believe we are more intelligent than people before us. Another divide.

Now when we believe in the evolution of human race we also believe that no matter what, we will never have the perfect political, economic or judicial system as we are tending to it, not reaching it. If we have a human history written in chronological order we won’t be able to point at a particular page and say ‘ok here is where we evolved to the potential that we can propose laws for us and yet to come’. So within this comes an acceptance to the chaos. There is large section of people who are not bothered by the wars, social tensions or economic conditions of people. They have accepted that this will happen no matter what. Here is another divide.

Within the theory of evolution is another theory called survival of the fittest that tells us a very basic thing. “only those members of a particular species live who are adaptable to the changes’. The problem with this basic statement is that this lab rat experiments, when applied to humans, justifies every calamity on the victims. The way Nazis exploited the theory is exactly the divide of ideology I am talking about here. This grows the acceptance towards people’s disabilities and economic disparities in this world. Here, another divide.

I can go on but I think you have got the point. That, a simple scientific theory can guide your ideology to such a level that you may become exactly opposite of the one who doesn’t. We should be informed enough to believe in the scientific theories. What is right or wrong is left to a man himself. we are intelligent species after all!!!