Dr.GH
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I am gratified that Allen linked to my 2005 PT article on this "Darwin was a racist" bullshit.
Clive steps in some more shit writing, | Quote | | "My argument is that evolution can only exist by comparison to those who are close to others. To see the similarities is by comparison to say that they are closely related, and to see the differences is by comparison to see how one is evolving from the other. And once that determination is made, it is discerned that the one is either more or less evolved than the other by comparison." |
It turns out that I spent most of today reading a gross racist, anti-Semite, and direct Hitler mentor, Houston Stewart Chamberlain, who's 1899 "Foundations of the Nineteenth Century" makes the identical complaint as Clive about Darwinism, | Quote | | "But where there is no limitation, one cannot, in the proper sense of the word, speak of progression forwards or backwards, but only of motion. For this reason no tenable notion can be derived even from the most consistent, and, therefore, most shallow, Darwinism; for conforming to definite conditions is nothing more than a manifestation of equilibrium, and so called evolution from simpler to more complicated forms of life may be quite as justifiably considered a decline as an advance; it is in fact neither the one nor the other, but merely a manifestation of motion. This too is admitted by the philosopher of Darwinism, Herbert Spencer, in that he regards evolution as a kind of rhythmic pulsation, and explains very clearly that the equilibrium is at every moment the same. In fact it is inconceivable how the systole should form an “advance” on the diastole or the pendulum's movement to the right an “advance” on its movement to the left." |
What wankers.
Edited by Dr.GH on Mar. 12 2009,17:10
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"Science is the horse that pulls the cart of philosophy."
L. Susskind, 2004 "SMOLIN VS. SUSSKIND: THE ANTHROPIC PRINCIPLE"
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