Dear Chaudhry Sahib … Good Evening! Its been a long while. Hope everything is good with you.

 

You know I want to be the last person who to deride anyone. If it appears that I did (I have seen that paragraph again and I honestly feel there is a tinge of arrogance in it); please accept my most sincere apology. It must have been my human fallibility.

 

It is somewhat hard for me to see how to answer to your e-mail. However, my feeling, from our last meeting, is that you do not have much problem with science of theory of evolution (And I thought of you as the most brilliant on this subject). It seems problem is with the social dimensions of violent-thought, which obviously this theory does not ascribe to.

 

History of wars and atrocities of various kinds is just too long and painful. I wish there were a way that human race could live in peace with the neighbors and love each other. Sure, we don’t do that. Is it the result of imperialism or illegitimate application of Darwinian Theory as ‘Social Darwinism’ or a violent social consciousness that all religions and social philosophies talk so much to restrict. I think all of the above is true.

 

Nonetheless, it is also true in history that religions have gone against religions, races against races, gender against gender and human as a whole against nature as a result of technological development. It is equally true that atheist could be as violent as religious person. There is one common denominator to all of the above scenarios that it is a violent consciousness that is taking various forms according to the situation. Hope you would accept me saying that I condone none.

With best regards

Tahir