noewhan
14-01-2009, 09:35 AM
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If he was alive still, he would write it ;)
halleyscomet
15-01-2009, 04:30 PM
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If he was alive still, he would write it ;)
Not quite.
The "not the origin of life" part is accurate. Evolution isn't about where life came from, just how it develops over time. Research into the origin of life is an entirely separate discipline.
The eugenics crack on the cover is what ruins it. Darwin has been quoted out of context a lot, but despite what the director of "Expelled" wants people to think, he didn't favor Eugenics. To quote Darwin:
The more efficient causes of progress seem to consist of a good education during youth whilst the brain is impressible, and of a high standard of excellence, inculcated by the ablest and best men, embodied in the laws, customs, and traditions of the nation, and enforced by public opinion. It should, however, be borne in mind, that the enforcement of public opinion depends on our appreciation of the approbation and disapprobation of others; and this appreciation is founded on our sympathy, which it can hardly be doubted was originally developed through Natural Selection as one of the most important elements on the social instincts.
Or as Noah Webster once put it:
True is it on Nature's Plan
That Education makes the man.
True, some horrible people have used Natural Selection as an excuse for their crimes, but does that make Darwin culpable for their actions? Spain had monarchs who systematically arrested, tortured and killed Jews, Muslims and Protestants in the name of Christianity, does that make Paul the Apostle or Christ himself culpable for those murders?