ON this week’s Christian Comment by Graham Hobbs in which he outlines why he doesn’t believe in evolution.

Posted by looklikeafish: I think he’s mistaking evolution to be a moral stance when in fact it’s simply reality. The natural world is brutal and obviously those best adapted to survive as others become extinct. The understanding how species develop doesn’t necessitate support for eugenics, it simply means you understand the driving force behind our planet’s vast biodiversity.

Posted by BobCur: Evolution is a basic fact of science. Magical creationism is a fantasy.

Posted by stevenbower59: ‘Evolution depends on “the survival of the fittest”. It works to some extent but it’s a blunt tool and its application regularly leads to places like Auschwitz or genocide of the sort we’ve seen in Rwanda or more recently the atrocities in Iraq and Syria.’ I don’t follow this. What do you mean ‘it works to some extent’? In what way can it be ‘applied’? How does a theory that addresses change in breeding populations over time have any application that could lead to genocide?

On Green MEP Molly Scott Cato’s criticism of the Eurozone’s handling of the Greek debt crisis.

Posted by Phyllus Jones: Dr Scott Cato mentions that the Eurozone’s handling of the Greek crisis is an attack on democracy.

But the formation itself of the European Union federal country was the much bigger attack on democracy. European countries had a trading bloc, then Germany was unified, then the big push to change a trading arrangement to a political one. Couldn’t be done via the front door since Brits would never have agreed to their country being changed to a province of a larger EU country.

So, the back door. Make believe the countries are still countries but sign them all up to a “treaty” which creates two levels of government (a federal system) in just the same way as would a new constitution.