“Science” does not have this problem only the ToE...and if you MUST continually assure its exclusive inclusion via legislation that should be a red flag to any rational person (we do not need this for physics or chemistry or 90% of Biology)...
-_- there are laws in place for all the curriculum of public schools for any country. Math and history are just as legally required as science is. Furthermore, the public outrage at what is taught in schools is not even exclusive to science. In some states of the US, for example, the law states that the value of pi is 3. I am not kidding. Currently, people tend to ignore these various laws promoting ignorance. When evidence suggested the Earth was old, people were outraged, banging their bibles. Whenever ANY subject can be construed to go against religious teachings, people threw a huge fit. Sometimes ignorance won out, sometimes it lost.
This happens because the verifiable aspect are MIXED with the assumptive speculative aspects and all are taught as “true”!
You personally think that. However, as a person that has experienced public schooling, your assertions about evolution (as it is taught in schools) are incorrect. In middle school, it was OPTIONAL. I took AP biology in high school, and it BARELY got a mention. Most of my knowledge about evolution prior to college was because I pursued it out of personal interest. You think so many people can manage to be ignorant about the most basic evolutionary concepts in a society that pushed it down their throats? Don't be ridiculous. A large portion of public schools don't even follow the law, and don't teach it EVEN THOUGH LEGALLY, THEY HAVE TO. My fiance is from North Carolina. When instructors did bother to teach anything about evolution, they constantly followed it up with "but it's all wrong and the bible is true". So, what is actually being pushed down their throats is Christianity.
No it has not...it has “changed over time” to MAKE the “categorization more useful and accurate to” to the preconceived and ‘accepted as true’ HYPOTHESIS (not reality)...
-_- taxonomy is not evidence for evolution, and predates it. The founder of what would eventually become the modern taxonomy system was an astute creationist. In fact, he even denied the existence of carnivorous plants, because he viewed them as an abomination that would defy god's divine design. Additionally, the original kingdoms of classification were Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral. Freaking rocks were classified alongside living organisms in the past, and there was no kingdom level for prokaryotic organisms at all. That we classify living organisms on this planet is independent of evolution, though classifications of specific animals have changed due to DNA comparisons. Likewise, we wouldn't stop classifying organisms as species if evolution was disproven.
You may not even know what actual reality is, because if you did you would know that materialism is utterly delusional.
1. assuming that I am a materialist. I am entirely open to the prospect that there are aspects of the universe we cannot currently measure, and some which we might never be able to measure. I just don't make assumptions about what those things are, since by virtue of not being measurable, we can't determine that.
2. What "actual reality" is only extends, from our perspective, as far as what we can measure. While I do personally view that there is plenty we have yet to measure, and plenty we currently can't, it is pragmatic to consider that which measurably exists to be "real", and that which doesn't measurably exist "not real", since we can't determine the qualities of what we cannot observe. Anything we can't observe or measure is just conjecture at best, and pure fantasy at worst.
"At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world...The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized 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." — Charles Darwin (1871) The Descent of Man, 1st edition, pages 168 -169.
"The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world" (Francis Darwin, The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin, Vol. I, 1888. New York D. Appleton and Company, pp.285-286)
I wasn't denying that Darwin himself was racist. I kinda assume that by default for anyone that died prior to WWII. However, his writings on evolution don't mention human evolution very much, and the use of "races" in Origin of Species is never used to refer to humans (it's used roughly like species would be). You do realize that Darwin having racist roots doesn't make his theory inherently racist, right? Are you going to say that cell theory has racist roots too?
Thomas Huxley once wrote, “No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average Negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man.” (Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews, 1871)
1. demonstrate that Thomas Huxley WASN'T racist prior to being exposed to evolutionary theory.
2. demonstrate that evolutionary theory was what caused him to become racist.
The standard intelligence of the average adult Negro is similar to that of the eleven-year-old youth of the species Homo sapiens
” (Darwinian Anthropologist, Henry Osborne, “The Evolution of Human Races,”Natural History, Jan.-Feb. 1926).
You do realize that if evolution implied racism, that it STILL WOULD, right? So where's the modern evolutionary racist? Why hasn't racism become more prevalent over time as evolution became more prevalent? The easy thing to realize is that racism and supporting evolution aren't correlated. Rather, these are independent from each other. Racist people that support evolution will often try to use it to justify their racism. Same goes with racists that are Christian creationists; they'll claim the bible supports their racism.
Clearly one can see that even this post-Ota Benga Darwinian still believed whole heartedly that people of African descent are not viewed as being “homo-sapiens”, but are of at the least, an entirely different species of homo. And these are just a few followers now look at his family....
Again, no shock that Darwin was racist, but you have to demonstrate that evolution made these people racist for your issue with evolution to be valid. People will abuse what they have to promote their ideology. People have always done this.
Charles Darwin’s son Leonard was an avid follower of his father’s work they had many conversations discussing the details and implications of his theory. After daddy passed, Leonard went on to co-found The Eugenics Society and became its President from 1911 through 1928 and remained on board in an honorary position until 1943.
Yes, eugenics, you know, that thing I keep mentioning sprouted up via misunderstanding evolution. Survival of the "fittest" just means that whatever lives to reproduce viable offspring is what ends up in a population. As long as a person is capable of surviving and reproducing, they meet all the basic requirements necessary to contribute POSITIVELY to the survival of our species. Those that are physically unable to reproduce simply won't, so there's no reason to kill them to remove them from the gene pool. They already aren't going to contribute to it.
Thanks to this lack of fundamental understanding of how evolution works, supporters of eugenics inadvertently harmed the gene pool by excluding some people the right to reproduce (until Hitler's actions in WWII came to light, and no one ever wanted to be associated with eugenics again).
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27., on Leonard Darwin, we read a letter from the German Society for Race Hygiene sent to Leonard Darwin about attending the International Commission for Eugenics.
Again, misunderstanding evolution. Mixed race babies actually tend to be healthier than people purely descending from specific regions, as it reduces the risk of inheriting recessive diseases associated with being from a specific region, such as cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia.
Did you ever stop and think, "perhaps it is their racism creating bias in their scientific interpretations rather than the science contributing to their racism"?
His grandson Charles Galton Darwin has his legacy as well. He was a Eugenics Society life fellow, vice-president 1939, director 1939, president 1953–1959, and remained on committee in 1960. On the late 30’s and early 40’s little Chuck was also the advisory editor (along with Josef Mengele’s mentor Von Verschuer) of the racist journal Mankind Quarterly.
And all the people that were racist in the 1950's were evolution supporters... oh wait, they weren't, it was just a common thing in the population during that time period in general.
Then in the near future I can cite the deceiver Heackel, Pleotz, and even Sanger...who readily published Hitler’s Mengele’s articles in her periodicals.
I hope you aren't suggesting that Ernst Haeckel liked Adolf Hitler, seeing as Haekel died in 1919. Hitler wasn't even notable in terms of politics until a year or two later. Furthermore, Haeckel's drawings are irrelevant, since we use actual pictures of embryos and fetuses now. Additionally, his proposal that human and other animal embryos developed similarly is demonstrably correct. Were his methods flawed and biased? Absolutely. As it were, his basic conclusions ended up being correct despite that. It's an atypical sequence of events, but it is what it is. His drawings aren't used in up-to-date text books (we've had decent pictures of embryos in the womb since 1997), so why do people keep bringing him up? Are you foolishly assuming that the later evidence that confirmed Haeckel's suspicions was derived through as bad of a method as Haeckel used?
Thanks to you not providing a first name, I can't even look up who Pleotz is. I'm not familiar with the name.
Hitler was also Time magazine's man of the year in 1938, since he turned around Germany's failing economy during the Great Depression. People often forget that Hitler was extremely charismatic and well-spoken. It wasn't until the concentration camps began to be liberated that people outside of Germany realized what a monster he was. By the way, are you unaware that Planned Parenthood began to perform abortions 4 years after Margaret Sanger's death?
Additionally, as I read up on Margaret Sanger more, she actually REJECTED race and ethnicity as relevant in terms of eugenics. So, she was a supporter of eugenics THAT WASN'T RACIST. Furthermore, she never supported killing people for the sake of eugenics, and reacted negatively to what Hitler had done. She was also anti-Nazi, and I can't find any reliable sources that state she ever published an article by Hitler or Mengele. It seems highly unlikely that she would have published any work in regards to Mengele, since his work in no way stood out and was unrelated to her personal goals at the time.
Are their aspects to her ideology I find detestable? Absolutely, such as her support of the sterilization of the mentally challenged. However, I can find no connection to her ideology and evolution at all. In fact, she joint up with the eugenics crowd due to overlaping ideals that she had with them, such as that birth control should be available to anyone that could want it free of charge.