osk
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I'd just like to ask.....those of you who support evolution.....what is your stance on the racism father of evolution Charles Darwin includes in his work. Evolution teaches the doctrine of survival of the fittest - implying there are "savage" races and civilised races. These are Darwin's own words:
"At some future period (Darwin writes), not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes ... will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest Allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as the baboon, instead of as now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla." (Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man 2nd ed (New York: A. L. Burt Co., I 874), p. 178).
It is a much less known fact that Darwin was also a sexist, believing that the Human female is much inferior to the male in terms of intellectual capacity. This Darwin believed to be because males, having a more active role that female, subsequently were more exposed to the 'survival of the fittest scanario' - eg, fighting off other men etc. Darwin believes that the pressures placed upon males result in a process by which the less intelligent specimens do not survive. Since females generally had a less active role, they were not exposed to this "cleansing process" and subsequently suffered intellectually. Darwin even went so far as state that male and female humans today should be classified in two separate psychological species - males as homo frontalis and females as homo parietalis.
What do u guys think of this?
"At some future period (Darwin writes), not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes ... will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest Allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as the baboon, instead of as now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla." (Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man 2nd ed (New York: A. L. Burt Co., I 874), p. 178).
It is a much less known fact that Darwin was also a sexist, believing that the Human female is much inferior to the male in terms of intellectual capacity. This Darwin believed to be because males, having a more active role that female, subsequently were more exposed to the 'survival of the fittest scanario' - eg, fighting off other men etc. Darwin believes that the pressures placed upon males result in a process by which the less intelligent specimens do not survive. Since females generally had a less active role, they were not exposed to this "cleansing process" and subsequently suffered intellectually. Darwin even went so far as state that male and female humans today should be classified in two separate psychological species - males as homo frontalis and females as homo parietalis.
What do u guys think of this?
