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posted by janrinok on Monday February 11 2019, @03:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the monkey-business dept.

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."


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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday February 11 2019, @04:47PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 11 2019, @04:47PM (#799587)

    If evolution is true then there is no such thing as equality.

    Yeah, I think you get it. And if you have a political party / movement with an non-rational belief set demanding both inherently conflicting beliefs exist and are simultaneously true, gonna be some epic infighting. So here we are.

    Attempts at not fighting are fun to watch too. Before the theory of planetary movement based on ellipses was cool, they tried to force ever more ridiculous systems of circles within circles and similar nonsense to have a really complicated system of circular orbits that didn't work well and made no sense but sorta badly matched reality, rather than just admitting defeat and implementing elliptical planetary orbits. Thats kinda where we're at with evolution and equality right now, infinite hot air trying to make incompatible beliefs compatible with each other, its not possible, although funny to watch the attempt.

    Its a major social faux pas to point out the very inconvenient truth that modern string theory smells very much like the theory of epicycles from a couple centuries ago. With an opposing view that of course every actual breakthru historically looked like shit until it was beaten into working. Although I don't think the conflict between evolution and equality can be "historical breakthru'd" or hand waved away, its not a physics experiment but an inherently conflicting philosophical outlook.

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