On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:32 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
> CB: The evpsych error is not so much that humans have evolved
> biologically from the time of species origin , but that the evpsych
> misrepresent in a Social Darwinist manner what humans were like at
> origin. And they understate the determining factor of culture in
> shaping human individuals.
>
> [WS:] The error of Social Darwinism is its teleology. They have the
> needed conclusions - the superiority of the upper social stratum, and they
> are providing rationalizations of those conclusion by pseudo-scientific
> arguments how the outcome claimed by this need conclusion came to
> existence. The word Darwnism is is quite misleading here. AFAIK -
> Darwnism is the claim that evolution occurs by different survival rates
> which is pretty much due to chance rather than any "superiority". Gold
> fish evolved from carp by pure chance - the appeal of certain look to the
> human eye. As a result, specimens that did not have that certain look were
> systematically culled by breeders even though they were inferior to the
> "original" in that they swam slower and thus were more vulnerable. What
> these fraudsters do, however, is equate survival with some kind of
> superiority - "if X survived, therefore X must be superior. Ergo,
> superiority evolved through the evolutionary process" The premise of that
> argument is false, even though the claim of the evolutionary change is not.
>
>
>
> This is a typical bait and switch. They smuggle a questionable assumption,
> and then they focus their attention to an otherwise valid reasoning that
> rationalizes but does not prove that questionable assumption to make it
> appear as proven. The fact that such garbage passes for "science" and is
> being taught at top universities clearly testifies that academia is -
> paraphrasing John Kenneth Galbraith - in the business of providing the
> needed conclusions to those in the position to pay for them.
>
>
>
> --
> Wojtek
>
> "An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."
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