tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post114221969751908867..comments2024-03-28T03:31:42.278-07:00Comments on Chiron: DarwinRoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08483616030072739190noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-49744825455107838082013-02-10T11:33:34.816-08:002013-02-10T11:33:34.816-08:00Natural selection isn't the same thing as evol...Natural selection isn't the same thing as evolution. It's one small component, necessary but not sufficient -- and it's accepted by many who don't buy the whole evolution package.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-1142348307207566942006-03-14T06:58:00.000-08:002006-03-14T06:58:00.000-08:00Uh, oh...here I am again instead of being in bed l...Uh, oh...here I am again instead of being in bed like I should be!<BR/><BR/><I>My concern with safeguards is that there is sometimes a fine line between helping and enabling.</I><BR/><BR/>I hear you. The best way to help someone who is wounded is to rehabilitate them, not coddle them. I've never been a big believer in handouts since, as you say, they encourage mooching. I prefer the idea of giving people the tools necessary to help themselves.<BR/><BR/><I>I wonder sometimes if the percieved increase in fundamentalism is real, or is a media-fueled attempt to sway the country politically.</I><BR/><BR/>These days it's getting harder to trust <I>anything</I> in the media. However, I do know (rather the hard way) that a couple of my fundamentalist friends are getting much more rabid, much more vocal, and have been digging up much more mutual support than they have in the past, mainly because they feel encouraged by the current social/politican environment. I'm sure the cycle will come around again, but I'm hearing (and being accused of) some scary things.The Moody Minstrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16342935635794595909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-1142297710566179502006-03-13T16:55:00.000-08:002006-03-13T16:55:00.000-08:00I very much understand the feeling of being betwee...I very much understand the feeling of being between two accepted points of view- you manage to get labeled by both sides. My concern with safeguards is that there is sometimes a fine line between helping and enabling. Is it a coincidence that there was a sharp increase in illegitimate children and broken families when social welfare programs ensured that the children could be fed without a father?<BR/><BR/>The theory of Natural Selection is a "no brainer". I still have never met anyone who has actually read "The Origin of Species" who denied it. I wonder sometimes if the percieved increase in fundamentalism is real, or is a media-fueled attempt to sway the country politically.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for reading, Kevin.Roryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08483616030072739190noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14473417.post-1142257620358836802006-03-13T05:47:00.000-08:002006-03-13T05:47:00.000-08:00Well said. Just a couple of moody comments to thr...Well said. Just a couple of moody comments to throw into the pile:<BR/><BR/><I> There are a few people out there who don't accept or understand Darwin's theory of natural selection.</I><BR/><BR/>Actually, the number of such people is large and growing, and our current administration is openly in favor of keeping it that way. We live in an era when private schools, at the urging of "megachurches" take kids on tours of science museums so they can ridicule "secular humanist science". School boards are debating whether to teach science or religion in science class or whether science textbooks should carry warning labels. There are debates about the topic going on in classrooms and meeting halls, in courtrooms, and on the internet, and so much of it is based on such laughably simplistic logic it really makes one wonder what happened to the intelligence of mankind.<BR/><BR/><I>For all the crap that free-market capitalism gets in certain circles, it's consistantly produced the higest standard of living and all other systems have drifted toward it or collapsed.</I><BR/><BR/>Historically, the best living standards have been produced in societies that have free market capitalist economies with certain safeguards attached (but not excessively). Have too few or no safeguards, and you end up with either a heavily cartelised economy such as happened in the U.S. before Teddy Roosevelt implemented antitrust legislation or you wind up with a more or less feudal society such as exist in much if not most of Central and South America (and the left-wing revolutions we're now seeing down there are a very predictable result of that). On the other hand, have too many safeguards, and you have a stifled economy and/or one that is in the grip of a corrupt bureaucracy (arguably the situation in Japan now...except that corporations also control the bureaucrats).<BR/><BR/>I generally think we need a few more safeguards than most conservatives think and fewer than most liberals think. I keep putting myself in positions like this...The Moody Minstrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16342935635794595909noreply@blogger.com