Re: TRUTH AND "TRUTH" (joke!)

["Robert G. Tuck Jr." <tuckr@digital.net>]

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From: <NJPharris@aol.com>
To: <dinosaur@usc.edu>
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2000 6:40 PM
Subject: Re: TRUTH AND "TRUTH" (joke!)


> In a message dated 10/15/00 3:01:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> m_troutman@hotmail.com writes:
>
> > Many biologists believed in some form of evolution, but they
> >  didn't have the cajones to extend it further.
>
> Man, to think how much farther along we'd be today if David Hume had had a
> set of big boxes!
>
> Nick P.
>

Not necessily. Our worldview is shaped by our cultural heritage, social
institutions, and even political considerations. Memes (to use a current
term) prosper only when other factors favor their propagation. Otherwise,
we'd celebrate Empedocles (ca. 492 B.C.E-?432 B.C.E), rather than Charles
Robert Darwin (1809-1882) and Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) for
alighting upon the concept of natural selection as one of biological
evolution's driving mechanisms.

-= Tuck =-