The Descent of Man
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In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin refused to discuss human evolution, believing the theme too “surrounded with prejudices.” He had been reworking his notes since the 1830s, but only with trepidation did he finally publish The Descent of Man in 1871. The book notoriously place apes in our family tree and made the races one family, diversified by “sexual selection”— Darwin’s provocative theory that female choice among competing males leads to diverging racial characteristics. Though less well known than The Origin of Species, The Descent of Man continues to shape the way we reckon about what it is that makes us uniquely human.
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THis book is so wack. I should use it for toilet paper. What a moron. Survival of the fittest my a$$! What an ignorant fool for writing such garbage. Do not buy it!
Rating: 1 / 5
Just as “Origin of Species is misunderstood, I judge “Descent” to be also, although the latter is a more entertaining read. “Descent” fails to concentrate on man without differing. It is a book of observations and study. It concentrates on how animal life, has, by sexual selection, brought forth the variety in the species we see today, through millions of years. Darwin covered his beloved pigeons in depth in “Origins” and continues at part on many other bird species in “Descent”. I agree with him that all the different types of birds we see today probably came from one ancestor of the pigeon. This is called variation of kind. We see this in just about every living creature and flora. The problem arises when the next step is taken, the rise of one species turning into another (reptile to bird). Throughout the book Darwin does admit to this fact, but he still maintains that it must be, with much difficulty. He does hint to nature having some “power of plotting”, where does this come from? How does nature make these choices? Why did Darwin focus so on the black tribes: their practices, looks, sexuality, if he did not judge them a lower race? Of course he only hints at this, and his belief of evolving from apes is inadequate, but evident. Does not the use of race to distinguish only separate? His theory on idiots as in some way lower is also disturbing. And what of the rudimentary parts and vestigial organs. As we progress in our scientific study we know more on their uses, and there may be much we will never know. In the end he gives a poor argument, and a intricate book.
There is no doubt there is a tremendous quantity of work that went into his book. It is a trying and awkward read, although there are many fascinating and detailed observations. One does need to know his enemy. Darwin is not the originator of “evolution.” There are many who came before him, since the dawn of time. He was influenced by numerous men of his time, some being more radical. Darwin was nothing new, he just maid it “hip.” What he ongoing has turned into the secular humanism the world has adopted. I don’t reckon he meant for this disease to spread like it has. From his writings I know him as an agnostic, but unpromising. I believed he struggled with the possibly of a deist. It is safe to say it was his only ambition till his dying day to prove “evolution” as proof of our existence. What of the gone fossil record?, he new they would be found. He was a confusing man.
150 years later and there still has been no intermediate fossils found to prove the case. In fact we are learning more that validates creation.
Why don’t we see a scale or a feather erupt occasionally on man? Is it because it is not in our DNA, and never was?
The theory of evolution caused Darwin to loose his faith and his experience has been repeated in countless lives. Evolution is an acid that eats away at the mind, a cancer.
One only needs to open the pages to Michael Behe’s book, “Darwin’s Black Box”, to know the futility of the evolutionary theory. The engines of life at the molecular level are so complex that there leaves no other possibility than a creator of the universe. There should be no excuse.
Rating: 2 / 5
1) The means of natural selection among human beings:
“the races or species of men, whichever term may be applied, encroach on and replace one another, so that some finally become extinct”
2) The way natural selection operates:
“Extinction follows chiefly from the competition of tribe with tribe,and race with race. (…) when of two adjoining tribes one becomes less numerous and less powerful than the other, the contest is soon settled by war, slaughter, cannibalism, slavery, and absorption.”
Make no mistake about it, all I did here was to distill the “formal” hypothesis from a book that’s supposedly science. By the quotations above from this book, Darwin’s version of Natural Selection theory stands or falls.
Rating: 1 / 5
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1) The means of natural selection among human beings:
“the races or species of men, whichever term may be applied, encroach on and replace one another, so that some finally become extinct”
2) The way natural selection operates:
“Extinction follows chiefly from the competition of tribe with tribe,and race with race. (…) when of two adjoining tribes one becomes less numerous and less powerful than the other, the contest is soon settled by war, slaughter, cannibalism, slavery, and absorption.”
3) The morality of Darwinism:
“Both sexes ought to refrain from marriage if they are in any marked degree inferior in body or mind”
Now you don’t have to read the book.
Rating: 1 / 5
Just as “Origin of Species is misunderstood, I judge “Descent” to be also, although the latter is a more entertaining read. “Descent” fails to concentrate on man without differing. It is a book of observations and study. It concentrates on how animal life, has, by sexual selection, brought forth the variety in the species we see today, through millions of years. Darwin covered his beloved pigeons in depth in “Origins” and continues at part on many other bird species in “Descent”. I agree with him that all the different types of birds we see today probably came from one ancestor of the pigeon. This is called variation of kind. We see this in just about every living creature and flora. The problem arises when the next step is taken, the rise of one species turning into another (reptile to bird). Throughout the book Darwin does admit to this fact, but he still maintains that it must be, with much difficulty. He does hint to nature having some “power of plotting”, where does this come from? How does nature make these choices? Why did Darwin focus so on the black tribes: their practices, looks, sexuality, if he did not judge them a lower race? Of course he only hints at this, and his belief of evolving from apes is inadequate, but evident. Does not the use of race to distinguish only separate? His theory on idiots as in some way lower is also disturbing. And what of the rudimentary parts and vestigial organs. As we progress in our scientific study we know more on their uses, and there may be much we will never know. In the end he gives a poor argument, and a intricate book.
There is no doubt there is a tremendous quantity of work that went into his book. It is a trying and awkward read, although there are many fascinating and detailed observations. One does need to know his enemy. Darwin is not the originator of “evolution.” There are many who came before him, since the dawn of time. He was influenced by numerous men of his time, some being more radical. Darwin was nothing new, he just maid it “hip.” What he ongoing has turned into the secular humanism the world has adopted. I don’t reckon he meant for this disease to spread like it has. From his writings I know him as an agnostic, but unpromising. I believed he struggled with the possibly of a deist. It is safe to say it was his only ambition till his dying day to prove “evolution” as proof of our existence. What of the gone fossil record?, he new they would be found. He was a confusing man.
150 years later and there still has been no intermediate fossils found to prove the case. In fact we are learning more that validates creation.
Why don’t we see a scale or a feather erupt occasionally on man? Is it because it is not in our DNA, and never was?
The theory of evolution caused Darwin to loose his faith and his experience has been repeated in countless lives. Evolution is an acid that eats away at the mind, a cancer.
One only needs to open the pages to Michael Behe’s book, “Darwin’s Black Box”, to know the futility of the evolutionary theory. The engines of life at the molecular level are so complex that there leaves no other possibility than a creator of the universe. There should be no excuse.
Wish you well
Scott
Rating: 2 / 5