05.14.08
Posted in sonnets, Evolution at 7:30 pm by nemo
Darwin, Nietzsche, and Hitler: Evolution of the Ubermensch
by Benjamin Wiker
Conservative rant on Darwin/Nietzsche hits the nail on a few points.
It is forgotten that Nietzsche shows with crystal clarity the change in mood after Darwin. Compare him with Kant. Nietzsche was both influenced by Darwin, and hid that influence behind a critical stance. This disastrous influence was transmitted to many in the subsequent two generations, an influence liberal Nietzscheans are at pains to deny. But the effect is there with a vengeance.
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Posted in Evolution at 7:20 pm by nemo
Darwin: a case of natural selection
Alfred Russel Wallace remains an obscure naturalist; more proof of survival of the fittest
Terence Kealey
This essay is an outrageous misjudgment of Wallace, but it is revealing of the tactics or mentality of Darwinists. Apparently anything goes in the promotion of ideology, truth being a casualty, survival of the fittest rules beyond truth.
First, Wallace is not so unknown: it is part of the propaganda campaign to say he is completely unknown. He may not have the celebrity status of Darwin’s false fame, but his achievement is clear in any truthful history of science that deals with the real facts: the famous Ternate letter, the conspiracy in the background to cheat him of his priority, and the subsequent downplaying of his honest insight that natural selection theory was inadequate to explain human evolution.
Saying that he is secondary here is a distortion. Science is about truth, and the truth is that he was a victim of chicanery and should be considered the real founder of modern evolutionary theory. Read the rest of this entry »
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Posted in you've got mail, Booknotes at 2:06 pm by nemo
by Mostafa Omar
International Socialist Review
ISR Issue 57, January–February 2008
Review of:
Ilan Pappé, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
(OneWorld Publications, 2006, paper 2007)
320 pages, $15 (paper)
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