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To: Arthur Wildfire! March
I used to be an evolutionist until I read Lucretius' _De rerum natura_ and "got the joke."

Perhaps a fruitful avenue of inquiry would be to examine the vast neo-Darwinian literature as interconnected fragments of an Epicurean creation myth. Which is to say that critics of the neo-Darwinian creation story should be reading works by Vladimir Propp and Claude Levi-Strauss if they want to create an approach that would reach a deeper understanding of evolutionary myth (or, better, "myth cycle").

41 posted on 02/16/2010 5:22:08 PM PST by Poe White Trash (Wake up!)
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To: Poe White Trash

You might be beyond me too then. =] It’s funny. I thought that critics of evolution were supposed to be knuckle-draggers, lower than Deadfish’s “F”ing [Don’t-Say]s. Hmmm ... I think some critics on this thread could hold their own against the smartest evolutionists on the planet.


49 posted on 02/16/2010 6:31:35 PM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (2010 HOUSE RACES! Help everyone get the goods on their House Rats. See my profile.)
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