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		<title>Darwin on human evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[150 years ago in June the famous confrontation over evolution took place between Bishop Wilberforce and TH Huxley. We begin a three-part series where we look at Darwin’s theory of human evolution and the reaction of Marx and Engels to it. On the Origin of Species (1859) was, arguably, the most shattering book of the 19th century, and Darwin’s most famous book. It was not, of course, his only book, nor was it the one in which he dealt with the evolution of the human species, even though it sparked off the “Man’s place in nature” debate. In fact, it took Darwin just over 11 years to publish his first book on the human species, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex (1871). Yet it did not have the same social impact as The Origin, and it is unlikely that the same celebratory hoopla will accompany its 150th anniversary in 2021. Unlike The Origin, there is no evidence that either Marx or Engels bought a copy or even read The Descent, as there are no references to it in their collected works. However, the fact that Engels continued to discuss Darwin and Darwinian literature, especially in the [...]


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		<title>Darwin and the Intelligent Design Brigade</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christian Right Lobbies To Overturn Second Law Of Thermodynamics &#8220;The second law of thermodynamics, a fundamental scientific principle stating that entropy increases over time as organized forms decay into greater states of randomness, has come under fire from conservative Christian groups, who are demanding that the law be repealed. &#8220;Calling the second law of thermodynamics &#8220;a deeply disturbing scientific principle that threatens our children&#8217;s understanding of God&#8217;s universe as a benevolent and loving place,&#8221; they are spearheading a nationwide grassroots campaign to have the law removed from high-school physics textbooks. The plan has already met with significant support in the state legislatures of Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, and Mississippi.” Before you start worrying, this was a satirical item from The Onion, back in 2000, aimed at religious people who reject Darwinian evolution. However it’s not really an exaggeration. Religious fundamentalists who reject evolutionary theory are also rejecting geology, astronomy, Einsteinian and Newtonian physics, in fact the whole body of scientific knowledge going back to first principles, and replacing it with a couple of anonymous books and a God who, as Bill Hicks pointed out in relation to dinosaur fossils, must be a liar and a practical joker. Yet these [...]


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		<title>Stephen Jay Gould</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the anniversary on the birth of the famous scientist Stephen Jay Gould, who sadly died in 2002 at the young age of sixty, readers might like to see what Socialists have to say about his work, evolutionary theory and related matters: Gould v. Dawkins Dawkins wars (1 &#38; 2) Socialism &#38; Darwinism Why Gould was wrong, and why Dawkins might be even more wrong Are we prisioners of our genes? No related posts.


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		<title>&#8220;What we need more of is science&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:06:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FN Brill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More YouTube fun, this time from M.C. Hawking. It&#8217;s a pretty good defense of science against religion. Check out M.C. Hawking&#8217;s website, where more mp3s and videos are available. Who knew Science and Gangster Rap went so well together? &#160; &#160; No related posts.


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		<title>President Bush signs the order to militarize space</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2006 05:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SPGB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In signing the recent executive order creating a new National Space Policy, President Bush has announced that the US will reject future arms-control agreements that might limit US military manoeuvrability in space. The document further announces that the US “will preserve its rights, capabilities and freedom of action in space &#8230; and deny, if necessary, adversaries the use of space capabilities hostile to US national interests.&#8221; “Freedom of action in space is as important to the United States as air power and sea power,” the policy declares and that to “increase knowledge, discovery, economic prosperity, and to enhance the national security, the United States must have robust, effective, and efficient space capabilities.” One wonders why the US fears other countries may have “hostile” intentions in the use of their space capabilities. Clearly the answer has to be because this is exactly what the US is itself intent on using space for. What else was Clinton’s Star Wars programme all about? The White House, however, insists that the new policy does not refer to the development or deployment of weapons in space. Indeed, in those sections of the policy made widely available recently, there is no explicit reference to the militarization [...]


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		<title>Kropotkin on Mutual Aid — Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 21:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Mattick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MUTUAL AID. By Peter Kropotkin, with Foreword by Ashley Montague, and including “The Struggle for Existence” by T. H. Huxley. Extending Horizons Press, Boston, 1955, pp. 362, $3.00. This new issue of Kropotkin’s work on Mutual Aid, first published at the turn of the century, not only satisfies the need for its continued availability but — in some measure — also helps to combat the current neo-Malthusianism and the renewed, though futile, attempts to present capitalist competition as a “law of nature.” Provoked by Huxley’s belief that in nature and society the struggle for existence is one of all against all, Kropotkin demonstrated that both in the animal world and human society it is rather mutual aid which secures existence and makes for progress. What Huxley proclaimed passes under the name of Social Darwinism — “the survival of the fittest.” The successful in society are such by way of “natural selection.” Nothing can be done about it, and no apology is needed, as nature is neither “moral” nor “immoral,” but “non-moral.” Of course, attempts are made to defy “natural law” through the establishment of social order designed to mitigate the struggle of all against all. Yet this promises little for [...]


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		<title>Man, The Enigma</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:59:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J. A. McDonald</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From The Western Socialist, January, 1948 A strange animal &#8211; man &#8211; until we get to know him. Brilliant, in a sense, he has developed systems of production, exchange, communication, and transportation that make the other animals look rather stupid. But, on the opposite side of the scale, he suffers deficiencies that enhance the prestige of every competing organism. While not the only animal that works, he is the only one that looks for work; the only one that works for wages, the only one that the boss can afford to leave alone while working. The only one subject to &#8220;separation anxiety&#8221; in regard to boss and job. He is the only animal capable of discussing his own affairs, and coming to the weird conclusion that he is lucky to have work. Truly, a strange animal. In recent years a number of individuals, of high standing in professional and scientific circles, have made brave attempts to associate man with some form of divinity. While they concede that his framework may have been derived from lower forms of life, they contend that he is, at the same time, endowed with a soul or spirit that could emanate only from a beneficent [...]


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