At 06:31 pm 28/10/2005 +1000, you wrote: >In reply to thomas malloy's message of Fri, 28 Oct 2005 01:53:53 >-0500: >Hi, >[snip] >>Kyle posted, and >> >>Revtek replied; >> >>> My faith in the human race and its future is shaken. >> >>Kyle, you seem surprised that there are really guys like Goering out there. >>There has to be a bunch of them because their reasoning is based on >>evolutionary beliefs and we all know how pervasive that is. >> >>Here is another really unsettling consideration. If evolution is true, then >>one race would naturally be superior to the others. For the races to be >>equal would be totally unnatural.
>Unequal does not necessarily mean "superior". The latter >frequently brings with it the inference "superior in every way", >whereas real differences actually result in superiority in some >respects, combined with inferiority in others. People are very >complicated organisms. Superiority in all respects concurrently is >unheard of. Furthermore, there are probably still thousands of >aspects of our chemical makeup that are as yet still unknown, so >"superiority" remains a very vague concept. > >To complicate matters, a characteristic that may be advantageous >in one situation may be a disadvantage in another. The respective >situations may occur close to one another either geographically or >in time, so is the carrier of that characteristic now superior or >not? Obviously it, depends on the circumstances. > >Regards, > >Robin van Spaandonk I was going to make similar points but I don't think I can do any better than the above so I'll shut up. <g> Frank Grimer
