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To: DavesM who wrote (65)	9/13/1999 1:21:00 PM
From: MikeH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

I hadn't heard that, but it makes sense. Evolution teaches that A can be better then B, simply by nature of birth. But, isn't this true? Contrary to the teachings of the modern world. Isn't it the truth, that if you are intelligent and successful, and you marry an intelligent and successful spouse; that you are likely to have intelligent and successful children?

To: DavesM who wrote (65)	9/18/1999 10:40:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Your post isn't "off-topic," it's actually quite pertinent. The theory of evolution that was acceptable to the Marxists was, and still seems to be, Lysenkoism, which is a branch of Lamarckianism. Jean Baptiste Lamarck predated Darwin, and he believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics. To put it at its most absurd, if you cut the tail off a mouse, the mouse's babies would be tail-less. That is patently absurd, and doesn't really do the theory justice. But it's completely antithetical to the way evolution is understood outside of the Soviet Union. dcu.ie On the other hand, Lamarckianism still has its proponents. custance.org The problem is that it is so patently obvious that evolution MUST exist, based on the fossil record, but science still can't pin-point HOW it happens. Darwin's theory, that infinitesimal variations from the norm gradually become the norm as the species as a whole adapts to the environment, is the most elegant, and the most satisfying, IMO.