1. Do you think the church should intervene in scientific activities?

I think that the church should not intervene in scientific activities

because science and religion are two separate things. Religion and science
cover completely different spheres of human existence. Science explores the
ways in which natural things interact with each other and us, while religion
explores the way the supernatural interacts with each other and us.
2. How can Darwin’s evolutionary theory influence the following fields in
modern times?
 Economy
It already has an influence in modern times. Why do you think
people believe that a free market is important? Because they believe
that, like evolution, market forces will favor the “most fit” and
competition between companies will reduce prices by making each
company lower prices and improve products to better compete with
each other.
Natural Selection and Capitalism are excellent metaphors for
each other for each other. For example is making as much money as
you can by any means possible is a form of success says nothing about
your morals or ethics. Surviving and having as many offspring as
possible is a form of success even though. Another example is in
natural selection, there is no central planner. Rather, the environment
shapes and affects what succeeds and what fails. This success is not
long term but there is no special reason or guidance pushing for long
term results.
 Agriculture
In agriculture, Darwin’s evolutionary theory affects it at the most
basic level. In order to cultivate plants, it helps to know what makes
them suited to their environment and what factors could make them

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 more or less productive if you begin to modify them through selective
propagation. Early human beings began doing this without any concept
of evolution, but our modern understanding of the mechanisms behind
changes in organisms has enable much more deliberate and targeted
modifications.
 Political Science
Evolution and its associated theories have been used in the past
as support for political efforts. A main component of what was used is
the “survival of the fittest.” (Even though that idea has pretty much
been disapproved with more modern research and scientific
discoveries.)
 Religion
The influences of this theory to religion are: first, it is alleged
that just as biological organisms have evolved across the ages, even so
religious ideas have evolved. Second, it has been argued that ethical
and theological concepts have developed progressively across the
centuries of biblical literature. Third, in the latter half of the eighteenth
century a philosophy of destructive criticism became voguish, and the
so called documentary hypothesis was born.
3. If Freud is still alive, what do you think are the major changes he would
make to his theory?
I think if Freud is still alive he’d modernized his theories in light of new
discoveries – he was a neurologist first and last. But much of what he would
be to bawl out people who deliberately manipulated and misused his theories.
Freud would have to spend a lot more time studying the behaviors of higher
primates to begin to understand what is going on in the more primitive areas
of the human brain and how this impacts human psychological development.

Andrey Philip C. De Leon, BSCRIM-1S