What good's evolving
Alone in your room?
Help populations change.
Life is a change in allele frequency over time old chum
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Needs work.
Posted on 11/18/2005 4:34:43 AM PST by StatenIsland
Oh Man and I haven't collected my non-existent Social Security yet.
"But if you could see her through my eyes.....
She hardly looks Jewish at all!"
So "Cabaret" was inspired by Darwin.
What good's evolving
Alone in your room?
Help populations change.
Life is a change in allele frequency over time old chum
...
Needs work.
Greek warrior Spartan civilization. Weakling infants were left in the mountains to die.
The Republic, Book 5, Section 1. Plato recommended state-supervised selective breeding of children.
History of Australia. Before Darwin, England exiled criminals to purify the race.
It's all Darwin's fault.
My Great Great Grandpa was one of those sent to Australia. Quite a dapper dude.
My great grandfather had a brother who went to Australia. And stayed. No contact with that distant branch of the family. But he went there from the US, not from England on a prison ship. Still ... he was probably a horse thief. Who knows what lurks in the ol' family tree?
I can't prove old Harry was a thief, but the timing is very suspicious. And his arrival here in America corresponds with his "sentence" in Australia being up.
After serving their "sentences" in Australia, IIRC, they weren't alloed back into England, but they could leave Australia.
Well ... we know he didn't come here for the beer.
Maybe the beer in the mid 1800s was better.
You are both correct in a sense. English can be analyzed as having "subject" and "object" pronouns, "he" and "him" in this case. Another analysis is that English tends to have "before the verb" and "after the verb" pronouns rather than functional ones. The first analysis implies "he"; then second "him."
Other writers have suggested that "than" in the original sentence functions as a preposition giving the prepositional phrase "than him" rather than an elided clause wherein "than" is a conjuction.
Another example: "Who's that knocking at my door?" "It's I" vs "It's me." "Me" does the work of the French "moi" here.
Encouragement of reproduction of the "best" is usually termed "Positive Eugenics."
Sterilization of the "feeble" is usually termed "Negative Eugenics."
Positive Eugenics is generally considered to be more fun.
So should Gavrilo Princip be exonerated and Charles Darwin be blamed for WWI? Interesting topic for debate.
No, Darwin was not even in part responsible for WWI. However, the theory of evolution was important in giving scientific validity to the the idea of "survival of the fittest." People were quick to apply biology to society, because the biology seems to explain mankind.
The "best" seems to want to have fun, but not children; or if they do have children only a few"perfect" children.
"Quite beyond materialistic interactions, to me, the warp and woof of life suggests a maker with unfathomable grasp of the past, the future, the anvil of being, and the hammer of time and events, on human souls."
Nicely said, and yes, indeed, it does suggest that. But IMHO, the concept of a "maker" is not something that should be taught as science - the original point of the article. Great topic for a philosphy class, though.
I always wondered why there are so many Platonists among the creationists. I think Dr. Strangelove would approve.
He didn't do any such thing. People of all stripes are quick to misread science to support political ideas, but Darwin would not have accepted any such phrase.
Darwin did not, but Herbert Spencer and others did. A "theory" of evolution was proposed by Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus. Wallace come out with almost the same "theory" as Darwin. Darwin published twenty years of research to establish priority. The book was well-enough written to be [persuasive, and was pressed into service by the likes of Spencer and Huxley for many causes unrelated to his theory but related to a broader debate about the nature of man and his society. A new "natural law" was being promulgated and it began to look more and more like the law of the jungle, or to put it in biblical terms, the law of Cain. "Am I my brother's keeper?" But it did not begin with Darwin.
I'm not familiar with that name, and don't know a lot about WWI. My understanding, however, from various secondary sources, is that the Germans consciously pursued a policy of brutality early in the war, on the theory that it would make the war shorter. Apparently the military class seized on a superficial Darwinism as at least part of their rationalization of this policy.
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