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[thebitterguy]

Man Who Publishes Strip About Wife Beating Drunk Thinks Ben Stein is Onto Something.

Edit: Sorry, I thought he had some position at the Creator's Syndicate, instead of just being some obnoxious asshole.

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[waiwode.livejournal.com]

Sure. Humanity has always had "we're better than them" built right in. And Plato did discuss it, and the Spartans and Romans and probably a hundred other cultures all practiced infanticide.

However Stein is discussing the Eugenics theories created by Galton after he read The Origin of Species. (It was Galton who first used the word "Eugenics".) Galton didn't recommend a course of action, other than the need for people with "superior" intellect or talents to breed.

In Expelled Stein is creating a direct connection between Darwin and Death-camps, as if Darwin, by proposing how evolution worked, somehow recommended that killing each other off was the only way forward. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Doug.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Nothing could be farther from the truth.

Are you sure? He was a rich English dude in the 19th century.

[waiwode.livejournal.com]

Hahaha. Touché.

Okay, regardless of how Darwin may have felt about it, The Origin of Species wasn't forward-looking, it laid out neither paths nor courses of action nor recommendations for the betterment of our species.

Doug.

[madmanofprague.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I wonder if 'evolution' has too many positive connotations to accurately describe the actual theory.