Evolution and Specialness of Humanity

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Any emotion involved becomes simply "part of the process", and does not retain it's beauty.

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I know exactly how a rainbow forms, and can describe the process in terms of light refractions through air borne water droplets. I even have a copy of van der Hulst's seminal book on light scattering and can look up the internal reflections of light in the individual water droplets.But knowing all of this does not detract from the beauty of rainbows.In the same way, I know that my capacity for emotion and feelings (and perhaps even my sense of spirituality and my morality) can be explained through the natural selection of my ancient ancestors. But I nonetheless acknowledge my feelings and moral sense and continue to act on them.

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"Intellectually, scientifically, even artistically, fundamentalism -- biblical literalism -- is a road to nowhere, because it insists on fidelity to revealed truths that are not true." -- Katha Pollitt

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You make it sound like you aren't unique.

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I've tried to respond to this, but I realized that I don't know what you mean by this. What do you mean by "you are/aren't unique", why is this important? How does the theory of evolution destroy this, and why is this bad?

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"Intellectually, scientifically, even artistically, fundamentalism -- biblical literalism -- is a road to nowhere, because it insists on fidelity to revealed truths that are not true." -- Katha Pollitt