[Buddha-l] Fighting creationism

[jkirk]

I googled that phrase and got pages of references to the Pope and to ID 
folk.
Hence, forget it, better to ask another troglodyte. So thanks for your 
troglodytic explanation.
Am aware of the changes in evolution theory you noted but had never come 
across that particular phrase.
Today there is increasing evidence that some characteristic are acquired via 
environmental conditions. Lamarck might not have been so wrong after 
all--just misguided.
Back into my cave.
Joanna
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> On Saturday 31 March 2007 18:38, jkirk wrote:
>
>> Please all: what the hell is the "neo-Darwinist theory of creation"?
>
> All theories undergo change over time. The classical form of evolutionary
> theory as found in Origins of Species in 1859 is Darwinism. Various 
> modified
> versions are called neo-Darwinism.
>
> Highly evolved beings use Google. If you plug "neo-darwinism: into Google
> you'll get lots of information, including the following from
> http://www.allwords.com/word-neo-Darwinist.html :
>
> "A later development of Darwinism, laying greater stress on natural 
> selection
> and denying the inheritance of acquired characteristics."
>
> I gather some of this stems from an attempt to take evolutionary biology 
> back
> from neo-conservative  followers of Sir Hebert Spenser, who foisted social
> Darwinism---and Spenser's famous mantra "survival of the fittest"---off 
> onto
> a public eager to believe the neo-Republican dogma that billionaires 
> succeed
> in life because they are better than us paupers.
>
> Creatures much lower than Googoolians on the evolutionary chain 
> (troglodytes
> like me) still read books by people like Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker 
> and
> Richard Dawkins. They can tell readers quite a bit about current 
> evolutionary
> theory.
>
> -- 
> Richard Hayes
> Department of Philosophy
> University of New Mexico
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