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You're not a scientist, are you, Vanessa? Or are you one of those creationist lunatics?



From what I have gathered during my time on xpt I think that Da Burg suffers from a very serious condition called "Brittle Bone Disease". (Osteogenesis Imperfecta). The condition is caused by a genetic mutation. DNA. This takes us straight to the topic of Darwin... and Da Burgs' recent "name" change.

I just assumed - maybe mistakenly - that somebody who suffers from a disabling genetic condition won't be able to find much comfort or a sense of humanity by looking at Darwin. The "survival of the fittest" and the "weeding out of the weak" are certainly part of the process of animal and plant life in the wilderness, and are part of the natural process of evolution, but I don't think those concepts can be applied wholesale to human life in the 21st century. First, because the environmental conditions of humans have now been significantly different from those of animals in the wilderness for a long time. And secondly, for reasons of how we define the value of a human being. Is somebody worth less because one is a carrier of defective genes? Is a person worth less because he/she has no children (for whatever reasons) and therefore has become an expendable evolutionary dead end? Is it helpful to have that kind of understanding of oneself?

Anyway that's all I was trying to put out there. But no post on xpt goes unpunished.

I personally believe that Darwin has made huge scientific contributions, but he never meant for his discoveries to be applied to gauge the value of individual human life. He has been abused for all sort of bad causes, for example by Nazi Germany... there was a Eugenics movement in the United States... (good bye Stephen Hawking, Da Burg, Vanessa and other degenerates)... and Social Darwinism, with all the crap that comes attached to it.

As far as creationism is concerned, that's a question of religious beliefs and everybody is free to believe what they want to believe. Or not to believe. Science and religion don't have to be mutually exclusive. But leadership in science and technology is not a question of religion, because the proof is in the pudding, and without proof you can't build space shuttles...

Warp speed, Mr. Sulu.