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Old 04-23-2008, 02:59 PM
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Originally Posted by SRoper View Post
OK, but survival of the fittest isn't really a controversial claim of Darwinism. I mean it's practically tautological. What is controversial about Darwinism is the idea that change plus natural selection explains speciation.
But it is the underlying philosophy behind the eugenics movement in the past. Find the best and brightest in society, sterilize or exterminate the rest.
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