Good Schools, Geoff Two, Richard Dawkins, Darwin and Evolution

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"...every group that wishes to see conflicting interests resolved reasonably, or is wise about the conditions under which it enjoys its own freedom, must be profoundly concerned with the state of freedom of speech and assembly, freedom of inquiry and teaching, freedom of press and other forms of communication, freedom of cultural opportunity and development. For in large measure intelligent moral choice depends upon them."
--Sidney Hook (1902-1988), disciple of John Dewey, and champion of pragmatism and democracy

In a later correspondence (and in response to my comments on his first letter) Geoff writes:

You are evidently fond of the following quotation by Darwin, as you refer to
it time and again...

"At some future period (Darwin writes), not very distant as measured by
centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and
replace the savage races throughout the world... "

I'm glad that you pointed out that he was not advocating such a thing as
much as he was predicting it. And then I have to ask you, was he wrong?
During his time, the so-called "civilized" races were busily annihilating
various other groups of human beings, whether Native Americans or Native
Australians or Native Africans, not to mention enslaving them when possible.
And the anthropomorphous apes hovering at the edge of extinction more or less, even as I type this, as a result of human depravations and environmental destruction (sometimes by natural causes, but more often by human activities). Darwin simply saw it coming and noted it.

My response:

Geoff's words here speak volumes. I am sure that Geoff is not himself intentionally engaging in stereotypical, racist rhetoric. I know that he does not view himself as a racist, for in another portion of his response he adamantly denies any racist tendencies. In spite of his denials, I do understand how he so quickly singles out Native Americans, Native Australians and Native Africans as the "savage races." He does so because he is a follower of the world's number one racist -- Charles Darwin.

Would you like to see related letters and my comments?

--Mike Carrier (MA, NYU--Graduate School of Arts and Science)

This site features a frank presentation of issues facing parents, taxpayers and schools in reforming schools in the twenty-first century. Good Schools promotes good schools, and explains what is necessary to achieve good schools. We are convinced that good schools can be obtained only with sound curriculum, which does not include the teaching of Darwin's theory of origin, or Darwin's theory of evolution. We believe that local school boards need to be empowered, and the influence of teachers' unions ought to be limited to labor-related issues. Teachers' unions should have no say in curriculum.

We are convinced that the teachings of Darwin, particularly Darwin's teachings on evolution, and Darwin's theories on origins, ought not be taught as fact. Darwin and Darwin's theories are not generally accepted by contemporary physicists and cosmologists, and, therefore, Darwin and Darwin's theories ought not be accepted whole-cloth by our schools of education, and ought not be presented as fact in public schools.

Because Richard Dawkins has set himself up as the number one defender of Darwin and Darwin's theory of evolution, we will go to some length explaining Dawkins' Darwin defenses, and we will do our best to explode Dawkins' Darwin defenses.

We seek to show from Darwin's own hand that Darwin, and Darwin's theory of evolution, are racist at the core. Darwin was a racist, Darwin's theory of evolution is racist, and Darwin's theory of origins is racist.

We further seek to show that Darwin's theory of evolution is not scientific. We show that racism, more than science, was behind Darwin and Darwin's theory of evolution, and Darwin's theory of origins.

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