'Indy Timeline' of Upcoming Events Darwin: "Favoured Races"
"Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection"
or the
"Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life"
Races? What happened to just the ONE race? The HUMAN race?
Favoured races? Which ones are those?
Remind me again why we've so heavily invested our children's lives in this theory at school? [And how's that working out for them, anyway?]
Which 'facts' do YOU know to be 'true' about evolution:
What 'evidence' seems MISSING from this theory?
Get your hands on a copy of "Evolution's Fatal Fruit" -- showing the links to racist outcomes from Darwin's handiwork...
... including the path to Hitler's doorstep.
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[Revisit... "Take a chance: Help me understand 'random' "]
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Are you deliberatly twisting Darwin's meaning or are you simply ignorant of the contents of the book? Darwin ,who wrote Origin of Species in 1859, uses the term races to refer to varieties of plants and animals. He at no time in the book refers to people, humans, exept when discussing mans effect on domesticated animals and crops. Species are the scientific catagory under gerera.
Rabbit- genus- Lepus
Whitetail jackrabbit-
Lepus townsendi
snowshoe hare- Lepus americanus
Two seperate breeding populatiions- two seperate species. If you can split off another independent breeding population from either, and with time in a lab setting you can, you have originated a new species.
The only book more misrepresented to fit personal agendas is the Bible.
The title's implication speaks for itself.
And the theory's logical extension speaks for itself as well.
But we needn't leave any of this to guesswork. Darwin did not leave any of us wondering or debating where his theory led him, as he went on to write in 'Descent of Man'...
"At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes ... will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla (Darwin 1887:156).
"The Descent of Man" 1871, was a response to the human evolution debates raging at the time and is not written to the same scientific standard as "Origin of Species".
Darwin engages in much non-scientific speculation. Science requires falsifiable hypothisis and "Descent of Man" does not keep these standards.
Research, including modern DNA research, has rejected much of this kind of speculation. We are all one species with far less seperating us than casual observation would suggest. However, this does not invalidate the solid science in "Origin of Species" or that fact that though Darwin turned out wrong in his later work his mistakes took science in a new direction toward the truth. Thats how science works. It done by men, not the Divine. We don't always get it right the first time.
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