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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

No actually he clearly doesn’t get it. He makes the classic flaw of the eugenicist, that of thinking he is better than others and therefore his traits should be passed on. Someone with an understanding of Darwin would realize there must be some sort of reason why the people he thinks are inferior are breeding more than the people he thinks are superior, and he needs to re-examine his value judgements because natural selection says they’re wrong.


82 posted on 06/16/2007 2:00:41 PM PDT by discostu (only things a western savage understands are whiskey and rifles and an unarmed man)
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To: discostu
No actually he clearly doesn’t get it.

Baker's book Race was endorsed by Peter Medawar, the Nobel Laureate. Those guys know more about biology than you ever will.

He makes the classic flaw of the eugenicist, that of thinking he is better than others and therefore his traits should be passed on.

The mistake Darwin made was in thinking they can be passed on. He thought any variation he liked was germinal. Descent of Man is based on this error. Darwinism is based on this error. Eugenics is based on this error.

85 posted on 06/16/2007 8:55:22 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
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