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To: NonZeroSum

Evolution says SURVIVASL of the FITTEST, and that means superior, does it not?

Even famous evolutionist Henry Fairfield Osbourne said that black adult males had the brains of 12 year old white males and that defended his racist views.

You must not be up on just what evolution means.


14 posted on 08/19/2006 6:54:45 AM PDT by RaceBannon (Innocent until proven guilty: The Pendleton 8)
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To: RaceBannon
Evolution says SURVIVAL of the FITTEST, and that means superior, does it not?

No, it does not. The evolutionary survival is based on the number of the offspring. So people with PhD having one child on the average are dying out, while if people without high school diploma having three children are taking over.

It is fertility, stupid. Read my tagline.

21 posted on 08/19/2006 7:01:07 AM PDT by A. Pole (Evolution has demonstrated that the optimal IQ is the average IQ !)
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To: RaceBannon
Evolution says SURVIVASL of the FITTEST, and that means superior, does it not?

First, Darwin did not coin this phrase, and as a matter of fact, hated it.

Second, the phrase, when properly understood, refers to a given environment. What is most fit in one environment can be least fit in another.

Moreover, the idea that most fit refers to a characteristic of brains reflects the biases of the reader. Fitness can be the result of any combination of characteristics that allow an organism to reproduce most successfully in a given environment.

23 posted on 08/19/2006 7:02:32 AM PDT by freespirited (No pair has been more wrong, more loudly,more often than the two Senators from Massachusetts.-Zell)
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