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Darwin Day is a celebration of Charles Darwin's birthday, the theory of evolution and science in general. This year marks his 210th birthday and 160 years since the publication of The Origin of Species. Those looking to celebrate or learn more about Darwin and evolution will find a wealth of events going on, or if you'd rather not leave the house, try a Darwin Day card with designs generated by simulated evolution.
Recently, an important finding in man's evolution was announced; the so-called Missing Link was confirmed. Australopithecus Sediba fossils were found in 2010 but it took a decade of research and debate for scientists to confirm that this was indeed the missing link that connects man's evolution in an unbroken chain back to primate ancestors.
Not everyone is down with Darwin. The Pew Research Center reports, "In spite of the fact that evolutionary theory is accepted by all but a small number of scientists, it continues to be rejected by many Americans. In fact, about one-in-five U.S. adults reject the basic idea that life on Earth has evolved at all." In Indiana, senator Dennis Kruse introduced a bill that would, among other things, "require the teaching of various theories concerning the origin of life, including creation science."
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Monday February 11 2019, @04:42PM (7 children)
No, I mean, really, so what?
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” -- Voltaire
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 11 2019, @04:48PM (6 children)
What people can make you believe is on you not them.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 11 2019, @06:02PM (5 children)
Not really. That's why feminists have been winning the last few decades. They decry any actual research that doesn't confirm their beliefs and as a result, it's gotten tougher and tougher to conduct objective research on things like domestic violence because nobody wants to have the consequences of being bullied for not reinforcing the narrative that it's mostly men beating women. The last time a major study was done was in the '80s and it found the numbers of men beating women were roughly the same as the women beating men. But, it's not popular, so nobody is willing to fund that and risk having their reputation ruined.
Given enough one sided research and you put people in a position where they're just going to buy into it as there's no other side to hear from. This is one of the reasons why heresy and blasphemy are commonly punished in regions where the local religious cult controls the government. If nobody hears about other view points, they're not likely to go looking for them either.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 11 2019, @10:55PM (4 children)
...except you're a lying liar. Deliberately misrepresenting what was found. Because of the ways the original studies were set up, there was no way to tell the difference between someone initiating violence and someone defending themselves. Both showed up as violent contact.
Organizations doing these studies learned from their mistakes and designed better studies.
So now we know that men INITIATE violence significantly more often (women initiating approaches rounding error) and inflict GREATER DAMAGE. Women might inflict a scratch or a bruise defending themselves. Men...dislocate shoulders, damage internal organs, cause concussion or hearing loss, break hands, arms...and necks. So go take your bullshit and your sanctimonious attitude and die in a fire.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday February 12 2019, @01:00AM (3 children)
Right. And lesbians have the highest rates of domestic violence because?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 12 2019, @09:33PM (2 children)
My abuser was bisexual, not purely lesbian, for what that's worth. So, about this highest rate of domestic violence...is this quantity or "quality" as it were? Because as much as I feared her hurting me, I never worried she was going to kill me.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 13 2019, @02:51AM (1 child)
Yeah, men are much stronger and scarier than women, so violence is only a problem in the one direction. I get it. I just think it's bullshit.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 13 2019, @02:59AM
I don't agree with that line, mostly because I've seen examples of female-on-male domestic violence *and* watched the victims get actually *laughed at,* in one case by the actual fucking police, rather than helped. So you have one lesbian feminist who works to raise awareness that it can happen to anyone, for whatever my tiny voice crying in the wilderness is worth.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...