Posted on 04/26/2007 8:57:40 AM PDT by spirited irish
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The key theory of Darwin is “Survival of the Fittest”. Evolution recognizes the extinction of species as they fail to adapt to geographical and climatical change.
Starvation in Africa is related to the lack of desire by the inhabitants to quit feuding over land and start raising crops. If they kill each other over the land, the land will never reach it’s potential to help the inhabitants survive and exacerbates the problem.
Mankind has the ability to adapt and recognize what actions are “necessary” to maintain quality of life and the surrounding species. The unnecessary actions are attempts at saving a weaker species or subspecies.
Taking parts of Darwins theory out of context makes the theory look great for environmentalists. But it does not address that there will always be weak species and evoloution is a force of change.
I agree completely, this guy is all the way in left field.
The Stalinists and Hitlerites both tried to breed chimps and humans.
Here’s a post-modern example of socialist conventional wisdom:
http://www.slick.com/dmd/dancemonkeysdance.htm
So how is that humanism? Erasmus was a Humanist. Hitler and Stlain were not.
That is my point. Humans are not shaved apes.
What a completely incongruous list. The only thing all these people have in common is that they are disliked by the author.
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LOL. And I’d have to ask, on what planet is Nazism considered an example of secular humanism?
I’m with you, the article should simply be entitled: “Stuff and People I don’t like”.
They have atheism in common; most of them, very aggressive about it.
This is just dumb. Communism in practice is about the ultimate power of the state, not about evolution. You don't need to see the people as animals to kill them, you just need to see them as being below the state. We have had this whenever we put anything other than the people on a pedestal, be it the state or a deity.
Rousseau wasn’t an atheist. And did Kinsey even talk about his religious beliefs?
Dang, it’s a slow day in the `hood when we can’t get the ol’ monkey pot stirred.
OK, so Nietzsche said (paraphrasing) `with the death of God, all things are possible.’
That could be good things, as well as Stalin’s purges and Auschwitz, right?
But that requires man be seen as the measure of all things, with no restraints other than positive law?
As I decipher Rousseau, the only god he believed in was Nature itself; and Kinsey ranted against religion as being that which most expressly suppressed all those wholesome, perverted sexual expressions.
antiRep: This is just dumb. Communism in practice is about the ultimate power of the state, not about evolution
And your authority is???? I suggest you take up your argument with the ex-communists who researched and wrote The Black Book of Communism.
Borges: Yeah that’s the first thing that Hitler and Stalin bring to mind...humanism /sarc
A. Your anger says the author stepped on your toes.
B. Seems you forgot something re your sarcastic retort. Note: The author spoke specifically about ‘secular’ humanism-—Not humanism.
Borges: What a completely incongruous list. The only thing all these people have in common is that they are disliked by the author
The article has certainly brought out your spite and claws.
I think the author’s tinfoil cap is a little too tight and restricting the blood flow to their brain.
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