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To: JimSEA
Eugenics was and is a horrible set of ideas and practices.

Why? Is there some sort of 'good' Darwinian evolution and 'bad' Darwinian evolution?

Cordially,

88 posted on 02/20/2012 1:40:10 PM PST by Diamond (He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,)
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To: Diamond

Not, there is valid science and pseudo science serving a political idealogy. The very term Darwinian Evolution is meaningless. Darwin was the most famous of several 19th century scientists who came up with what eventually became the theory of evolution. Survival of the fittest does not mean the survival of the normative best which assumes a value judgement science can not make. Those organisms survive that adapt to their environment at a point in time. The saber tooth cat was an amazing killing machine but it couldn’t survive the end of the ice age. The possum survived and thrived. Which animal is normatively better? More beautiful? More fearsome?

My values cause me to evaluate eugenics as “bad”. Science has nothing to do with that judgement. Nuclear physics could be the science that allows Iran to destroy Israel. Certainly science won’t cause the destruction but the use of science could enable the Mullahs to follow the dictates of their religion. I guess you might label that “Einsteinian Physics”?


106 posted on 02/20/2012 4:19:32 PM PST by JimSEA
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