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To: orionblamblam

Actually, Lysenko didn't oppose evolution. He opposed natural selection. Evolution and natural selection are not the same thing. Leftists often oppose natural selection, but embrace evolution. Conservatives often do the opposite.

Lysenko was an advocate of evolution, but for ideological reasons couldn't tolerate natural selection. So he supported Lamarckism, an earlier (than Darwin) version of evolution that rejects natural selection.

From one of your linked sources:

###Lysenkoism refers to an episode in Russian science featuring a non-scientific peasant plant-breeder named Trofim Denisovich Lysenko [1898-1976]. Lysenko was the leading proponent of Michurianism during the Lenin/Stalin years. I. V. Michurin, in turn, was a proponent of Lamarckism. Lamarck was an 18th century French scientist who argued for a theory of evolution long before Darwin.###


119 posted on 03/13/2006 3:24:36 PM PST by puroresu (Conservatism is an observation; Liberalism is an ideology)
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To: puroresu

On Lysenko, see my analysis of it here, with discussion of how today's creationists commit the same moral sins as the Soviet pseudo-scientists:
http://www.objectivistcenter.org/ct-1636-Creationists.aspx


121 posted on 03/13/2006 3:37:40 PM PST by Ed Hudgins (Rand fan)
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To: puroresu

> Lysenko didn't oppose evolution

The debate was over "Darwinism." Darwinism and Lysenkoism are mutually exclusive.


128 posted on 03/13/2006 5:22:24 PM PST by orionblamblam (A furore Normannorum libra nos, Domine)
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