Comments on: Darwinism, Darwinian, Darwinist https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/12/darwinism-darwinian-darwinist/ Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:23:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Darwin and Lincoln births: How close together? « Millard Fillmore's Bathtub https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/12/darwinism-darwinian-darwinist/#comment-486057 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 16:23:15 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15857#comment-486057 […] Darwinism, Darwinian, Darwinist [Greg Laden's Blog] (scienceblogs.com) […]

]]> By: Human Ape https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/12/darwinism-darwinian-darwinist/#comment-486056 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 02:09:18 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15857#comment-486056 Boswell, of course your comment was satire. Nobody could be that insane.

]]> By: Leards Boswell https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/12/darwinism-darwinian-darwinist/#comment-486055 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 00:40:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15857#comment-486055 Darwin was a life support system for a hairy face. An angry old turtle herder who had nothing better to do than convince others of his own misery and anger at God by dragging them down the path of satan. Happy birthday darwin. Hope hell isn’t too hot for ya.

]]> By: Darwinism, Darwinian, Darwinist | Origins of Mind https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/12/darwinism-darwinian-darwinist/#comment-486054 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:46:37 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15857#comment-486054 […] http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2013/02/12/darwinism-darwinian-darwinist/ […]

]]> By: rick povero https://gregladen.com/blog/2013/02/12/darwinism-darwinian-darwinist/#comment-486053 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 20:06:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/?p=15857#comment-486053 ** “Darwinism” overloaded with ambiguity

“Darwinism” is proudly used by Britons.

In the US it is used as term of disdain. Fundies — as text worshipers — can not understand that in science there are no revealed texts — that textual exigesis is not a scientific skill. They imagine that by attacking a 150 year old text, some refutation exists of modern evolutionary theory (MET).

Also in the US, “Darwinism” can refer to the Ango-American pseudo-sciences of social darwinism which incorporated 19th and 20th century preudices — racism, ethnic inferiority, genetic roots of poverty and class boundaries, sterilization of mentally ‘defective’ persons and ‘degenerate’ groups. The Nazis paid attention.

So, in the US, “Darwinism” won’t work as a synonym for MET.

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