The Origin of Species

[Henry Musikar]

Just because I disagree with the authors of the book burning list on
probably all fundamentals does not in any way preclude the interesting
occurrence of items on the list that have been misquoted and used as
justification for evil deeds.  

Ummm, Shockley, anyone?

Henry


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Ghetta Life
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 3:48 PM
To: jbor at bigpond.com; pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: The Origin of Species



>From: jbor at bigpond.com
>
>>The title of the book is _The Origin of Species_.
>
>And "survival of the fittest" was Herbert Spencer's phrase.

And it is this phrase, not the "harmful" book, that has caused the alleged 
justification by the strong for their abuse of the weak.  "Strong" versus 
"weak" was not the premise behind Darwin's theory of evolution.  And such a 
wrong interpretation sould not be accepted as an indictment of Darwin's 
theory.

Anyway, I suspect the "conservative" reactionaries who included this on 
their list weren't so concerned with the abuse of the weak by the strong.  
Many of them would probably agree that "might makes right," especially when 
it comes to keeping their hard-earned (or inherited) incomes.  They just 
don't like loosing their literal Biblical take on Creation.

Ghetta

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