<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 11:21 PM, Olga Bourlin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fauxever@sprynet.com">fauxever@sprynet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Well, there is a lot more to this (I did not bring in the thread that my husband forwarded to me from his discussion group - it was very juicy!). I am merely starting to explore this aspect as far as Rand goes.<br>
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</blockquote><div>If I must venture on a personal opinion, I do not see any necessary contradiction between objectivist ideas and evolution. Additionally, Ayn Rand was passionate and multidisciplinary enough to put up relentless and emphatic battles against anything she believed to have a real relevance in respect of her worldview.<br>
<br>But not being an objectivist myself, and being far from a scholar of Rand's thought, I am probably not really qualified to say a final word on the subject. <br></div></div><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>