[
US
/ˈdɑɹwɪˌnɪzəm/
]
NOUN
- a theory of organic evolution claiming that new species arise and are perpetuated by natural selection
How To Use Darwinism In A Sentence
- By the way Richard Dawkins, if you read this thread and I bet you do, I challenge you to appear here and respond to my thesis that Darwinism never had anything whatsoever to do with organic evolution beyond the generation of intraspecific varieties and subspecies, none of which were, are now, or ever will be incipient species. On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
- For neo-Darwinism, new functional genes either arise from non-coding sections in the genome or from pre-existing genes.
- Neo-Darwinism and front-loaded hypotheses expect the opposite pattern, a ‘bottom-up’ pattern in which small differences in form accumulate first differentiating species and genera from each other and then only much later building to the large-scale differences in form that differentiate higher taxonomic categories such as phyla and classes. Signature in the Cell: self-contradiction and repetition - The Panda's Thumb
- Social Darwinism counterpoises superstition/ritual with science/technology and darker skin/exotic clothes with lighter skin / Western clothes.
- Would I be correct in inferring that you would be against measures such as those that have been put forward in Ohio, Kansas, and elsewhere to include critical examination of the weaknesses as well as the strengths of Darwinism in public science education? A New Weapon Against Freedom and ID: Volksverhetzung
- The eugenic and Social Darwinism programs are morally repugnant, but seem to be based on Darwinian evolutionary facts.
- (Side note: using the kind of embarrassingly bad logic that Behe has roped you into, this observation alone proves that Darwinism operates with such blinding speed and efficiency that only the regular intervention by the Intelligent Designer keeps the bacteria from obliterating all multicellular life within a few decades.) Behe's Test, Take 2
- Evolution used to have two main theories: uniformism inherited from Darwinism and catastrophism handed down from Biblical stories but as well as from some geological evidence. Elitism Continued
- Not today, anyway, though there have been times when it has: social Darwinism and eugenics made claims like that.
- Social Darwinism should be made to work in reverse - those that have too much should be forced to hold a potlatch and divest themselves of their loot with those who have nothing.