Believe in Darwin IS HE RIGHT?

Question

Are you a female? Black?

According to Darwin in his "origin of a Species" He writes that men are in every way superior to woman. That we are further along on the evolutionary chain than woman. He also writes That Black people are further behind on the evolutionary chain than white people.

He must be right because Evolution is a scientific Fact RIGHT?

comments?

ok here you go.. about woman

cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/mfuhrer/self/essay_gambleversusdarwin.html

sorry i suck at adding links...grr
cyberbu zz.gatech.edu /mfuhrer /self/ essay_ gamblev ersusdarwin. html

take out the spaces on the above link.. cant get it right

sorry i see i actually did misspeak.. He didnt say these in Origin of a Species but in the Book "Decent of man"

Kudos .. you scored one on me but my point still stands.

Answer 1

He doesn't write that at all you liar. I read his work. How about you show us a link that points to where it says this in his work? I CHALLENGE YOU TO DO SO.

Answer 2

Lets look at his logicaly, Darwin was a man of his time, he was not a modern anthropologist and did not have as complete a view of evolution as we do now. He was working with more bits than we are. Remember in the early 20th century the British were convinced the aboriginies in Australia were 'the missing link'. Mistakes dont make an entire theory wrong and nothing makes the early istakes right, science revises its ideas all the time. The atom was thought to be the smallest possible piece of matter, they assumed that there would be nothing smaller - then they found quarks etc at the quantum level. Does this make quantum physics wrong because an earlier scientist assumed something - no! It just means the first guy was a bit misguided but not essentially wrong in everything.

To be honest its not much of a shock anyway, one of Darwins collegues used origin of species and decent of man to build up a theory called Eugenics. Something only very fringe group believe in now and very few scientists. If you remember Eugenics was also a product of its time (one that lacked the information and thought thought that we have now). The Nazis used this theory in the ultimate extreem and causd a lot of pain and suffering, This also does not mean evolution is wrong just that the knowledge at the time was slim and interpreted in a very white male superior way. If there are no women or black men that have been allowed to be educated in the same way as you it would be very easy to say these things because there would be no evidence available to say otherwise.

The early Church believed in reincarnation - you are all heretics because you say there is only one life.
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Answer 3

I'm sorry, could you point to where he said that?

Here's the complete Origin online:
http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F373&viewtype=text&pageseq=1

Please provide a page or chapter. Thanks.
Because I think you're talking out of your a ss.

christ, you're not even evolved enough to create a freaking hyperlink on the freaking internet. Look, don't give us some fuzzy site address. I've posted the OFFICIAL first edition text link for Darwin. Get us the chapter and we will examine your evidence.

Descent of Man you say? here you go. Edition 1:
http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F937.1&viewtype=text&pageseq=1
as before, please provide chapter or page. Your point, so far, doesn't 'still stand' because it hasn't been made. Only an allegation without evidence backing it up.

And besides, Darwin was a product of his time. In Voyage of the Beagle he refers to blacks or australians (I can't recall) as savages. So would every single british person of the time. But evolution would still be a valid and substantiated theory backed up by massive evidence even if Darwin was a complete racist misogynist dick who spit on little ladies.

Answer 4

Darwin was the beginning of a scientific inquiry into evolution. Some of his concepts reflected his times. Nearly 150 years of continuing inquiry have revised and extended the theory, and nothing has refuted evolution to date. Those who oppose evolution in general, must resort to deceit and slander, since they lack facts.

It's a shame that you do not understand that those who study evolution don't rely on belief, but rather, analysis.

Answer 5

That was not a value judgement, it was a biological observation and it was not part of Origin of Species. Men ARE physically better-equipped to survive, and black people did appear earlier than white people. So yes, he was right, and yes, evolution is a scientific fact.

Answer 6

Ask Jim Darwin on Yahoo Answers. He knows everything! SIGH.

Answer 7

Science progresses. Who cares what someone hypothesised 150!! years ago. Does science today support it? No. Does science support evolution? Yes. Overwhelmingly.

Answer 8

Darwin's theory has been refined a lot in the last hundred and fifty years. He wasn't totally right, but the big idea was.

Answer 9

Darwin also believed the English race was superior than the Irish and Blacks, he felt, were inferior... his original title ws more like Origins of the Species and the preservation of FAVORED RACES

sadly, Darwin even ordered some aborigines captures and brought alive to England to be taxidermies, he was inherently racist

there is only one race, the human race, and Darwin was wrong

Answer 10

Evolution is a fact. However, what Darwin may have thought about races may have been incorrect.

Lets see what the Bible has to say about women:

"Let a woman learn in silence with full submission. I permit no woman to teach or have authority over a man; she is to keep silent." (I Timothy 2:11-15)

Let the women keep silent. For it is not permitted for them to speak, but in subjection, just as the law says. But if they wish to learn anything let them ask their own husbands at home. For it is shameful for a woman to speak in church." (I Corinthians 14:33)

And slaves:

"However, you may purchase male or female slaves from among the foreigners who live among you. You may also purchase the children of such resident foreigners, including those who have been born in your land. You may treat them as your property, passing them on to your children as a permanent inheritance. You may treat your slaves like this, but the people of Israel, your relatives, must never be treated this way. (Leviticus 25:44-46 NLT)



When a man sells his daughter as a slave, she will not be freed at the end of six years as the men are. If she does not please the man who bought her, he may allow her to be bought back again. But he is not allowed to sell her to foreigners, since he is the one who broke the contract with her. And if the slave girl's owner arranges for her to marry his son, he may no longer treat her as a slave girl, but he must treat her as his daughter. If he himself marries her and then takes another wife, he may not reduce her food or clothing or fail to sleep with her as his wife. If he fails in any of these three ways, she may leave as a free woman without making any payment. (Exodus 21:7-11 NLT)

Because its soo moral to sell your daughter as a sex slave...

Answer 11

not that i have read it but
i do understand that on the evolutionary chain we originated from black people
this does not mean they have not evolved ... it just means they were first