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- From: David.Rice@ofa123.fidonet.org
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- Subject: SWAA Lecture
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 08:17:02
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- In article <1jelm6$ejh@agate.berkeley.edu>
- philjohn@garnet.berkeley.edu (Phillip Johnson) writes:
-
- > The anti-Darwinian evolutionary theory of Grasse provides an
- > interesting contrast to the orthodox Anglo-American Darwinism
- > of e.g., Chris Colby's FAQ.
-
- Mr. Johnson, I find your specious and gratuitous characterization
- of "Darwinism," (which is the word you use to mean "Mr. Johnson's
- poor and rather confused idea about what evolutionary theory is")
- as "Anglo-American" to be inane obfuscation designed to decieve
- the ignorant by saying one thing while writing another. This is
- par for the course in a court room (deception without lying is the
- mark of a effective lawyer), but it is worthless in the scientific
- arena. (And you did it without blinking. Damn, you're good!)
-
- Are you asserting a racial slur, or implying one of Mr. Colby?
-
- Do you consider the theories of planetary motion "Greco-Roman" or
- orthodox "Italian?" Is there such a thing as culturally-defined
- bullistics? (Trajectory particles, not the bull-tossing Mr. Holden
- entertains us with.) Do the laws of physics change from culture to
- culture? Do the facts recognize cultural and national borders.
-
- Is Evolutionary Theory an imperialistic conspiracy by the white
- Anglo-American power-drunk scientists like Colby, with unguessed-of
- intentions?
-
- Or is it the way reality is, and the rest of the world will just
- have to deal with it as best they can, and who gives a shit who
- quantified the theory?
-