Darwin's theories -- and I only include this for those who "get" science -- are about Adaptation -- MERELY through natural selection.If you take a group of people, throw them in ice water, and let everyone die until there are only two --- their offspring MIGHT be better at surviving cold water. Darwin isn't recommending it, and it takes a LOT of people and generations to get those who are cold-water adapted.It doesn't get you Einstein, however. Nor does it make life better, or a better society. Darwin did not touch upon how societies and nature and all that create symbiotic relationships. Notice that the Lion is not in an arms race with the water buffalo. In NATURE -- survival of the fittest is only ONE PART of the whole picture. The Lion does not have an ejectable jaw and poison-tipped claws and the Water Buffalo has not developed armor. Because in some ways -- they need each other. And sometimes, the lion does NOT kill the Water Buffalo, even though he could when at a watering hole. Over time -- the lion probably moderated it's behavior because ALWAYS killing the weaker animal meant that it eventually starves.Apparently, common sense was weaned out of the NeoCons, the Christian Fascists, and our soft bellied weaknesses, have made us not thin out our heard from idiots who believe in Eugenics. You see, these folks always project onto others their darkest fantasies -- so it makes them OK that they only want to weed out Liberals and really, really nasty people with bad table manners.These idiots, take some theory of science, that describers a well known PART of evolution, and try to say it's a moral judgement. It's an excuse for them -- though they don't believe in evolution, they all seem to be social darwinists. I don't know how these people function with such a twisted selective morality and denying their own contradictory nonsense -- it must require a lot of energy.
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