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To: 2MAR$ who wrote (20617)	2/2/2012 10:12:23 AM
From: Solon	Respond to of 69300

That is really sad. Sometimes here in Canada we get complacent and think we are somehow above the stupidity. It is easy enough to shrug and say, "America is all fu-ked up". I mean, only one out of five Canadians dismisses biology as crap and embraces creationist (read Christian) beliefs. After all, Biology and the other life sciences are incomprehensible without the acknowledgement of Evolutionary facts so it truly IS one or the other. But the fact is that even though the ratio is low, the delusion is there in every province...and it is fuelled and motivated by a fanatical drive to do God's work. If you look to any province you will see that the calendar of events is active and that while the surface of the ground may seem virgin and safe--underneath the moles tunnel relentlessly to weaken the foundation of Scientific thought and REASON. creationinfo.com Losing reason and Science will destroy a country. My political votes these days at every level of Government is strictly based on how much they eschew superstition and embrace reality. If we lose reality...ANYTHING GOES. That has always been the case and always will...

To: 2MAR$ who wrote (20617)	2/4/2012 12:02:30 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

Zoonomia Erasmus Darwin's most important scientific work is Zoonomia (1794–1796), contains a system of pathology, and a chapter on ' Generation'. In the latter, he anticipated some of the views of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, which foreshadowed the modern theory of evolution. Erasmus Darwin's works were read and commented on by his grandson Charles Darwin the naturalist. Erasmus Darwin based his theories on David Hartley's psychological theory of associationism. [7] The essence of his views is contained in the following passage, which he follows up with the conclusion that one and the same kind of living filament is and has been the cause of all organic life: Would it be too bold to imagine, that in the great length of time, since the earth began to exist, perhaps millions of ages before the commencement of the history of mankind, would it be too bold to imagine, that all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament, which THE GREAT FIRST CAUSE endued with animality, with the power of acquiring new parts, attended with new propensities, directed by irritations, sensations, volitions, and associations; and thus possessing the faculty of continuing to improve by its own inherent activity, and of delivering down those improvements by generation to its posterity, world without end! [8] Erasmus Darwin also anticipated natural selection in Zoönomia mainly when writing about the "three great objects of desire" for every organism: "lust, hunger, and security." [8] Another remarkable foresight written in Zoönomia that relates to natural selection is Erasmus' thoughts on how a species propagated itself. Erasmus' idea that "the strongest and most active animal should propagate the species, which should thence become improved" [8] was almost identical to the future theory of survival of the fittest. Erasmus Darwin was familiar with the earlier proto-evolutionary thinking of James Burnett, Lord Monboddo, and cited him in his 1803 work Temple of Nature. en.wikipedia.org