[ExI] evolution

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 10 13:07:41 UTC 2017


I have Darwin's magnum opus on my table.  He does write well, but damn it,
page after page of birds and more birds gets a little tedious.

I just though 'ascent' deserved a bit of a joke - not much there, I reckon.

bill w

On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 11:35 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org>] *On Behalf Of *William Flynn
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> I keep hearing about the Descent of Man.  To me, that is a very
> value-ridden label, to which I strongly object.
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> I think it ought to be the Ascent of Man (although in certain cases
> perhaps the descent is far more obvious).
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> Eh, it’s a genealogy thing BillW.  I descend from Isaac Newton Jones, that
> sorta thing.  I do urge you to read Charles Darwin, excellent writer, such
> a proper gentleman you just want to hug him.  He used that terminology a
> lot, back in the days when genealogy was popular because there weren’t any
> computer games.  Darwin reminds me of Anders Sandberg: smart as a whip,
> nice, even-tempered, never has a negative thing to say about anyone, even
> if they deserve it.
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