>>> JKSCHW at aol.com 09/07/00 10:37PM >>>
In a message dated 9/7/00 3:36:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us writes:
<< I believe Carrol means evolutionary psychology. Anti-evolutionary biology is a rightwing stance. >>
Right wing or not, it's bad science, not held by anyone with any repute among scientists. "Right wing" is not a scientific criticism. --jks
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CB: But unscientific or anti-materialism is a characteristic of a large junk of Right wing ideology.
In terms of current events, anti-evolutionary biology is concretely associated with rightwing religiousists in America. Thus,, the proposition "anti-evolutionary biology is a rightwing stance" , like I said, is roughly true.
Historically, the legitimization of evolutionary biology , as a form of materialism , helped make Left wing history and politics, Marxist materialism , legitimate for many people.
Even more, in general, natural science is not isolated from politics and class struggle. Marx's guiding principles in the Theses on Feuerbach regarding the unity of theory and practice in praxis applies to natural science as well as social science. The notion of "truth" not connected to practice is a scholastic and deficient concept of truth FOR NATURAL SCIENCE TOO.
Physicists, chemists and biologists, etc. should not pursue their crafts without placing them in the political and class struggle context of the world today. Science is politics.
So, the proposition "Right wing is not a scientific criticism" is substantially false.
As Maurice Cornforth puts it, every philosophy is the philosophy of a class.