@spendius,
Quote: after 1859 all sorts of eugenics movements appeared.
At least shoot for accuracy. Vague temporal references aren't allowed, especially when you start out parsing one of my sentences in your prissy fashion. Correct your run-ons before you complement my writing style.
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Don't you believe, with Lysenko, that life appeared spontaneously?
Where do you even derive this from anything that I have said. Because Lysenko's thinking , that of a Lamarkian, was adopted by Stalin as a basis for
Soviet biology, where does that historical fact connect to ANYTHING Ive said?
I think you need to clear the cobwebs old girl.
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Do you think evolution science needs a referee in regard to human activity?
no more than it needs a false biographer.
Darwin had nill to do with his 5th cousin's "invention" of the term EUGENICS. (a name that was not first presented in any literature until two years after Darwins death).
In the entire Desmond and Moore text, we see the mention of Galton in Darwins presence in references to the abolitionist movement or his messing about with spiritualism(something that Darwin said was silliness). Nowhere in the book is the word eugenics used in Galtons presence with Darwin.
(It actually appears to me that Galton's obsession came as an outgrowth of his dalliances with spiritualism than with anything he derived from Natural selection. Galton merely needed a firmer footing with something in sciences rather than séances). He claimed a "mentorship" relation with Darwin but Darwin was apparently not too pleased with Wallaces or Galton's sinking into ghosts and spirit worlds.
