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Adam Goodes - The cutting taunt of a 13-year-old : Comments

By Michael Viljoen, published 27/5/2013

A chorus of ape noises erupted from the stands whenever Eto’o touched the ball. It was the whole stadium chanting, not just a handful of fans.

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Nice to see you back on the boards, Dan S de Merengue. I hope life is treating you well in Cameroon.

>>Darwin believed that the non-white races were stuck at an early stage in their evolutionary ascent from the apes, having been preserved with those earlier levels of mental and moral development.<<

Not really, you know. Darwin did point out that there were differences in the various peoples he came across, but at no point did he suggest that they had become "stuck". Had he made such an assertion, it would have been extremely noteworthy, as it contradicted his entire theory of evolutionary processes. So, your suggestion that he believed they had been "preserved with those earlier levels of mental and moral development" is a calumny. Or a fib, if you will. That's like saying that you still look exactly like the photo that was taken of you twenty years ago, simply because that is the only evidence available.

And you are a little overboard with the kidney story, too.

>>evolution theory says that their respective ‘races’ were supposedly separated for tens or hundreds of thousands of years. You can get the full story (with a picture) here:
http://creation.com/blood-brothers<<

Here's a quote from that article:

"Darwin taught that the differences between various people groups were the result of many tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years of separation, in which each group allegedly evolved independently".

That's precisely wrong. Darwin was a monogenist, and was opposed to the prevailing theory of his time, polygenism, which the extract above describes. Monogenism posits a common descent for all humans, delightfully analogous in fact to your own thoughts on Adam and Eve.

So that's two fibs. Aren't you glad I'm still here to keep you on the straight and narrow?
Posted by Pericles, Thursday, 30 May 2013 5:44:32 PM
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