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To: js1138
"Marx had a time machine. He read Origin of Species in 1847."

This claim is that Darwin was using Dialectic Materialism to formulate his theory. It's a similar if still ridiculous accusation.
485 posted on 11/14/2005 11:51:31 AM PST by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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To: CarolinaGuitarman
This claim is that Darwin was using Dialectic Materialism to formulate his theory. It's a similar if still ridiculous accusation.

Actually Darwin modeled natural selection from the invisible hand of Aadm Smith. The evils of social Darwinism are the same as the evils of unmitigated cpitalism.

488 posted on 11/14/2005 12:01:02 PM PST by js1138 (Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
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To: CarolinaGuitarman

And here I thought he used the scientific method; called by some who live by their knowledge of philosophical catch phrases, methodological naturalism.


510 posted on 11/14/2005 12:45:58 PM PST by b_sharp (Ad space for rent.)
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