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Forbes, now wth random Darwin hatred...

Posted by gfish3000 • 2/07/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: anti-darwinism, creationism, discovery institute, forbes magazine, rants

You're reading about business news, what the power players are doing (i.e. how hard the economic problems are slamming them) and wondering what the hell is going on with the stimulus package and whether it's actually going to do anything.

Then, suddenly, blammo! A trio of summarized creationist polemics by shills from the Discovery Institute saying that anyone who thinks science is about tangibility is ignorant and Darwin was almost single-handedly responsible for eugenics, racism and the Holocaust.

Is that a new marketing pitch? Appeal to the anti-science demographic that would like libel and oogy boogy definitions of science? I sure hope my overlords at another business mag won't want to do the same.

Complete write up here: worldofweirdthings.com/2009/02/06/a-new-soapbox-for-creationism/

User Comments

2/07/09

voodooKobra

I know. What complete BS!

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2/07/09

Friday13

Shame on you, Forbes.

(stumbled, by the way)

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2/07/09

sunnyberra

Yes, well, it has made my family happy (they are not religious fanatics but most share a hatred of Darwin. Well, I don't know why, exactly. So, usually in discussions, I am the oddball, because I see the value of the theories. Oh, well).

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2/07/09

gerryPlanetEarth

Darwin's fairy tales are very similar to religious fairy tales...

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1. 2/07/09
  
  gfish3000
  
  Of course the only difference is that Darwin's fairy tales turned out to be true. Despite not knowing nearly enough about genetics and working without a significant fossil record, he managed to point biology in a direction that found proof behind his theory with only the most minor and technical revisions. The best Genesis can do is claim that "Let there be light" is a metaphor for the Big Bang.
2. 2/07/09
  
  gerryPlanetEarth
  
  gfish3000
  
  "Of course the only difference is that Darwin's fairy tales turned out to be true."
  
  Darwin's theories do not explain our creation or existence...(neither does any bible)
  
  What theory of Darwin do you believe to be true ?
3. 2/08/09
  
  voodooKobra
  
  What theory of Darwin's are you babbling about, Gerry? Darwin's theory only does one thing and he only claimed that it does one thing: Explain the origin of the SPECIES. Not of life, the universe, consciousness, etc. Just the origin of the species.
  
  Fairy tale? As if.
4. 2/08/09
  
  gfish3000
  
  The theory of evolution explains why living things change and come to look they way they do now or did in the past. Darwin never attempted to explain creation of life and only now do we have some theories of how life can be created.
  
  And now, pay attention, this is the important part. The theories of how life came to be on Earth fall within the realm of organic chemistry. Not evolutionary biology. Biologists study living things. Chemists study chemicals that make up living things. So if you want to know how life came to be, ask an organic chemist.
  
  I don't "believe" that Darwin's theory is true, I'm compelled by the sheer amount of fossil, genetic and experimental evidence to conclude that his theory is right on as far as we know. That's very different from belief.
5. 2/08/09
  
  timethief
  
  @gfish300
  I'm with you the evidence is there. What else can we conclude?
  
  What creationists refuse to get is this:
  A belief is not an idea held by the mind; it is an idea that holds the mind.
2/07/09

jake8955

Nice blog. Great layout and good article too!

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2/07/09

wehireu

I thought Darwin hated slavery. He wrote his theory of evolution partly to cancel the idea of hereditary superiority as well as demonstrate a common origin of humanity.

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1. 2/07/09
  
  gfish3000
  
  Yes. In Chapter 5 of Descent of Man he also wrote at length about how humans are illogically compassionate creatures and that human compassion for the weak and the sick among us must be a trait nurtured by natural selection because it allows more of our species to survive and is ultimately a great thing.
  
  Funny enough, this chapter is often bastardized by creationists who quote little bits and snippets out of it to make him look like a proponent of eugenics and an apologist for racism. Of course that does involve them quoting only selective pieces of his writing and re-editing them. I don't have to say what that's called by an objective observer, now do I?
  
  see: www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=six-things-ben-stein-doesnt-want-you-to-know
2/08/09

flamingpoodle

Oh poppycock.

Here are some Darwin-related posts I did, for the unenlightened:
necrofiles.blogspot.com/2008/12/random-mutator-of-perry-marshall.html
necrofiles.blogspot.com/2008/12/is-dna-analogous-to-human-language.html
necrofiles.blogspot.com/2008/12/how-random-is-random-mutation-on-dna.html
necrofiles.blogspot.com/2008/12/does-darwinian-evolution-claim-that-dna.htm...

If you think Darwin spread fairy tales, you should have your brain removed. You're not using it anyway and the rest of your body could do with a bit more air conditioning.

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