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To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (232323)	5/11/2005 10:06:47 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573098

"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions." --Adolf Hitler (Speech of May 1, 1927. Quoted by Toland, 1976, p. 306) constitutionalistnc.tripod.com

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (232323)	5/11/2005 8:17:47 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573098

Darwin actually believed, for example, that if you cut the tails off of a litter of puppies, the next generation would all have short tails. Where did Darwin say that? I find it hard to believe he would makes such a comment when its so easily disproved.

To: Emile Vidrine who wrote (232323)	5/12/2005 6:50:45 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573098

Darwin actually believed, for example, that if you cut the tails off of a litter of puppies, the next generation would all have short tails. I believe your thinking of Lamarck, not Darwin. "...Lamarck is remembered today mainly in connection with a discredited theory of heredity, the "inheritance of acquired traits", but Charles Darwin and others acknowledged him as an early proponent of ideas about evolution. In 1861, for example, Darwin wrote: "Lamarck was the first man whose conclusions on the subject excited much attention. This justly celebrated naturalist first published his views in 1801. . . he first did the eminent service of arousing attention to the probability of all changes in the organic, as well as in the inorganic world, being the result of law, and not of miraculous interposition." Lamarck's own theory of evolution was in fact based on the idea that individuals adapt during their own lifetimes and transmit traits they acquire to their offspring. Offspring then adapt from where the parents left off, enabling evolution to advance. As a mechanism for adaptation, Lamarck proposed that individuals increased specific capabilities by exercising them, while losing others through disuse. While this conception of evolution did not originate wholly with Lamarck, he has come to personify pre-Darwinian ideas about biological evolution, now called Lamarckism..." en.wikipedia.org