I am totally puzzled by the tenacity of Darwinism on secular thought. Now I
suppose the next orthodoxy will be sociobiology. Give your fair warning it
won't happen.
Review of Peter Singer's book at Amazon.
A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution, and Cooperation
Peter Singer
Darwin has
In a message dated 5/21/2001 11:00:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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If you have a new idea and it happens to conflict with the dominant
paradigm, you're going to catch flak. Either you back down or you don't.
Don't keep fighting just because you believe in your idea.
One of things Blaut (I will not as such tackle the Brenner issue) points to
is the way his Eurocentric historians are trying to derive the 'after 1500'
from the before and in the process getting into Euro-glorifications. As he
points out, it is not really the case that Europe was all that
In a message dated 5/24/2001 9:55:53 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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[] The origination (usually relative
onset) of most things on a major scale has a macro timing factor, a fatal
counterevidentiary suspicion of the basic wrongness of all views of
cultural
evolution
