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To: King Prout; Freedumb; Liberal Classic; Alamo-Girl; hosepipe; FreedomProtector; Quix; js1138; ...
one point: were the synthetic theory of evolution to be faithfully developed into a sociopolitical philosophy, it would be antithetical to socialism.

Well then King, why hasn't this been done yet? (Though you seem to have effectively done so in your fine post here). You let Marxists like Lewontin (and presumably Dawkins, others) use the theory to support their view of a sociopolitical order that seeks the very opposite of a liberal, just, free society.

Jeepers, I've heard Richard Dawkins wax poetic over the splendors of the ant heap via-a-vis the sort of social order that Western man has historically considered natural and normative. There are individuals in an ant heap too, ya know. But they are not "individuals" in the way we usually think of human beings.

Notwithstanding those quibbles, let me congratulate you on a great post, King Prout! Thank you.

263 posted on 09/24/2006 1:16:29 PM PDT by betty boop (Beautiful are the things we see...Much the most beautiful those we do not comprehend. -- N. Steensen)
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To: betty boop
...You let Marxists like Lewontin (and presumably Dawkins, others) use the theory to support their view of a sociopolitical order that seeks the very opposite of a liberal, just, free society....

I don't *let* Leftists use corrupted strawman variants of the SToE any more than I *let* creationists and neoPlatonists do so.

it is *beyond my power* to stop them from doing so.

had I that power, rest assured I would use it with great finality.

266 posted on 09/24/2006 1:21:51 PM PDT by King Prout (many complain I am overly literal... this would not be a problem if fewer people were under-precise)
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