He describes nature as “the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence”, and describes the process that made us as “wasteful, cruel and low”.
He says that nature gave us a brain capable of “understanding its own provenance, of deploring the moral implications and of fighting against them”.
He describes humanity as: “the only potential island of refuge from the implications of [evolution]: from the cruelty, and the clumsy, blundering waste.”
However, there is no special reason for thinking these guys are right—either about the desirability or the realistic possibility of rebellion.
Dawkins agrees with Huxley.
He describes nature as “the ruthlessly cruel process that gave us all existence”, and describes the process that made us as “wasteful, cruel and low”.
He says that nature gave us a brain capable of “understanding its own provenance, of deploring the moral implications and of fighting against them”.
He describes humanity as: “the only potential island of refuge from the implications of [evolution]: from the cruelty, and the clumsy, blundering waste.”
However, there is no special reason for thinking these guys are right—either about the desirability or the realistic possibility of rebellion.