On February 12, Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln celebrated their 200th birthdays. It turns out that Darwin understood that the meaning of his Torah is that all humans have a common origin, Lincoln, apparently regardless went one step further and freed the slaves
On February 12, the world celebrated the 200th anniversary of the birth of two spiritual giants - naturalist Charles Darwin and US President Abraham Lincoln. Was that their only common denominator? It turns out not. In an editorial in the journal Nature under the title Humanity and evolution, the editors of Nature write that both worked against slavery. Darwin by discovering the human tree of life, meaning that all human beings descend from a common ancestor. This brought him to the recognition that all human beings are equal and that slavery is wrong.
Of course, there is no need to say much about Lincoln's part in freeing the slaves in the USA. It should be noted that Lincoln was elected shortly after the publication of Darwin's book On the Origin of Species, but was assassinated long before Darwin published the sequel - The Descent of Man.
Darwin was exposed to slavery on his journey on the ship Beagle, and after being amazed by the phenomenon he wrote in his diary when he got off the ship for the last time: "I thank God, I will not return to slave countries"
A new historical study "Darwin's Sacred Reason" by Adrian Desmond and James Moore (also published in the February 12 issue of the journal Nature), seeks to unite Darwin's revolution in the concept of slavery with his scientific work. At that time it was common to believe that the differences in the human races indicate that they were created separately and are not equal. However, Darwin's view of the invalidity of slavery, which he deduced from his family, his friends and the social environment in which he operated, strongly led him to the idea that all people - English or Hottentot, free or slave - are brothers who share a common father in the past. The two claim that the ability to see that uniformity within diversity was one of the things that allowed him to formulate a similar view of the natural world as a whole. In a notebook from 1838, he writes "I can't think of a better comparison about the connections between all the people living today and the classification of animals" when Darwin drew the common origin of life as a family tree, it was because the nothing in the tree is a blessing to all people - it wasn't A concept that is so concerned with science but more with a moral and political position. According to the two, everything Darwin did had a social dimension as well.
Since Darwin, we have been studying human nature from the biological aspect, looking for traces of natural selection in the human genome, and analyzing the genetics of neurobiology and behavior, with the aim of obtaining new details and a complex sense of how evolution gave man a defined biological form, and on the other hand, we shed light on the way society and culture can influence science. This is a rich research field in both the natural and social sciences, and especially in collaboration between them.
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Yehuda:
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Apparently we also disagree on the question of what is sanity and what is madness.
The Nazis (most of whom were human) were able to abuse the Jews because they believed that they were another race that they valued as inferior.
Now, since the definition of the concept of race is not a clear-cut thing, in interpretation it is possible to accept the claim that the Jews are not members of the Aryan race (and genetic differences were also found).
The only reason for opposing the actions of the Nazis lies in the fact that even if there are different races - this is not a reason for discrimination.
Resistance to racism, therefore, is not resistance to the claim that there are different races, but resistance to underestimating the value of the lives of those you associate with another race.
so that's it. I do not underestimate the value of the lives of members of the cow race either.
To Michael
To justify vegetarianism with anti-racism is the craziest thing I've heard.
Let's eat a banana and some tea with mint, and... Racism is gone from the world!
Beauty!
Good day Michael
Sabdarmish Yehuda
Jotham:
I am indeed a vegetarian.
I have no problem corresponding with you by email, but since I am an ideological vegetarian, I am actually happy to have public conversations about the matter in order to convince other people to behave as I do.
Therefore - if you agree - maybe it would be better if we correspond here on the website - in the "free comments" section.
What do you think?
Michael, are you a vegetarian?
(Well, of course you are a vegetarian, according to your words).
Simply, I was surprised.
I would be happy if you contact me by email (if you are not ready to give your email address on the website. If you are ready, I will contact you).
And if you wonder about the reason for the request -
curiosity.
The debate between Judah and the point reflects the heart of the matter.
Yehuda writes that "they are trying to create the impression that those who believe in evolution stop being racist".
And Point answers him: "Black haters are primitive people who surely don't understand the meaning of evolution."
So what is the heart of the matter? The heart is the difference between "belief", the term used by Yehuda - a term that is true for the Nazis and because of this I often claim that Nazism is a religion and that the use of it by the defenders of religion to deny science actually works as a boomerang, and "understanding" - the term used by a point.
Therefore it can be said that both are right - at least to some extent.
Why only somewhat?
Because Yehuda claims that this is the impression they are trying to create and I don't think that is true.
They don't even try to create the impression here that understanding evolution immunizes against racism - let alone faith.
In my opinion, they do try to imply and it is also true that understanding evolution gives a certain resistance - not absolute - to the idea of racism.
As you know - she even led me to vegetarianism (which is nothing but resistance - at least partially - to the racism we take towards other animals)
And by the way, maybe probably, for general information: Hugin Q,, on the same day,, in the same month,, like two months ago, // nonsense but twice as much
And it turns out in the end that the test is after all the beautiful words and the beautiful talks of the soul, the teachings of the Torahs 'freedom of thought and the human spirit wherever it is' and the evolutionary boasting is all and in fact for everyday life, in the life sciences themselves - the reality that everyone at the time meets and then, his mistakes and achievements are tested .
I would also generalize the conversations here in the same reality test.
And by the way, maybe probably, for general information: Barak Ehud,, on the same day,, in the same month,, a few years later 😉
Yehuda,
I agree that evolution will not rid us of racism, but the use of the Nazis is not really reflective. According to what I remember, they simply found some tool that could be perceived as reliable for exploiting their concept of superiority. But every racist will always look for a tool to justify his thinking.
I think that evolution as Darwin intended it, is indeed supposed to eliminate the aversion of humans from different origins just as Darwin suddenly realized the error of the slaves. The fact that it doesn't actually happen - it only strengthens Darwin's view that all humans have a common origin - they are all stupid!! (;
Yehuda,
Do you justify the Nazis?
Black haters are primitive people who surely do not understand the meanings of evolution.
It seems to me that they are trying to understand things beyond the simple.
They are trying to create the impression that those who believe in evolution stop being racist and this is not the case! After all, the Nazis themselves used evolution to prove their superiority. Ours and the blacks had a common ancestor, so what? After all, we had a common ancestor with the monkeys and even with the mice! That doesn't make us equal to them.
Simply the haters of the blacks, with or without evolution, place the blacks on the same level as the monkeys, on the trees. See "Since Darwin" Maariv Publishing House, chapter 27 - Racism and recapitulation.
There are a lot of racist examples there, without anything to do with the belief in evolution.
good week
Sabdarmish Yehuda