Friday, April 20, 2007

Eugenics revisited.

Egnor postings and admissions that eugenics is not Darwinism have hardly "left the presses" before another IDist (John West) feels the need to chirp in and claim that 'eugenics was in reality a reasonable deduction from Darwin’s theory and is properly described as “Darwinian.”'. It's about time that the ID crowd stared getting their shit together. They have for ages been claiming that teleology - read goal-directed selection - of any kind is not Darwinism but clearly intelligent design (this is how they keep on claiming that there is soooo much ID research going on. Just about every experiment on biological organisms is goal directed). Eugenics is clearly goal-directed.

The ID crowd are at a cross-road and it's time to make their minds up. Either selective breeding is not evidence of ID or eugenics is applied ID (notice how I didn't say eugenics is either ID or Darwinism).

1 Comments:

At 6:42 AM, Blogger John Pieret said...

The ID crowd are at a cross-road and it's time to make their minds up. Either selective breeding is not evidence of ID or eugenics is applied ID ...

"Selective breeding" and "eugenics" look like words to me ...

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone,' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'

'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'

'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'

 

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