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Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!news.szaf.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!news.eyrie.org!beagle.ediacara.org!.POSTED.beagle.ediacara.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Harran <martinharran@gmail.com> Newsgroups: talk.origins Subject: Re: Teilhard de Chardin - new documentary Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 10:40:10 +0100 Organization: Newshosting.com - Highest quality at a great price! www.newshosting.com Lines: 59 Sender: to%beagle.ediacara.org Approved: moderator@beagle.ediacara.org Message-ID: <djfg5j10029krhu1qn7tstmnhpeqmch3q4@4ax.com> References: <v2d4g9$gh73$1@solani.org> <a0cm4j1gr1lfvcrs79r7ra5mi1olf1iotj@4ax.com> <v2j4qr$jnk2$1@solani.org> <kdut4j12tvsak4c31i85frse4vu1d2cb9o@4ax.com> <MYycnZ8_YauYidL7nZ2dnZfqn_qdnZ2d@giganews.com> <bdeu4jpadu1v3ju9cbludgmf14jg7tn16e@4ax.com> <MY2cnWxAeZJ58NL7nZ2dnZfqnPednZ2d@giganews.com> <np5v4jlj3k1gbaqph75volnbhjaqsge5b3@4ax.com> <BFadndZVZL3MVNL7nZ2dnZfqnPednZ2d@giganews.com> <o9m85j5ckntj9kb19vb1l175d8tf4rrpbn@4ax.com> <8bycnZ1bA68i4cn7nZ2dnZfqnPWdnZ2d@giganews.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: beagle.ediacara.org; posting-host="beagle.ediacara.org:3.132.105.89"; logging-data="34008"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@beagle.ediacara.org" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org Return-Path: <news-admin@admin.omicronmedia.com> X-Original-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org Delivered-To: talk-origins@ediacara.org id 3B729229870; Thu, 30 May 2024 05:39:50 -0400 (EDT) by beagle.ediacara.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 154E922986E for <talk-origins@ediacara.org>; Thu, 30 May 2024 05:39:48 -0400 (EDT) id 0CE1B7D121; Thu, 30 May 2024 09:40:14 +0000 (UTC) Delivered-To: talk-origins@moderators.isc.org by mod-relay.zaccari.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E66EC7D009 for <talk-origins@moderators.isc.org>; Thu, 30 May 2024 09:40:13 +0000 (UTC) by nntpmail01.ams1.omicronmedia.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7C1CF2019D8 for <talk-origins@moderators.isc.org>; Thu, 30 May 2024 09:40:12 +0000 (UTC) id 487D817201C0; Thu, 30 May 2024 09:40:12 +0000 (UTC) X-Path: fx15.ams1.POSTED!not-for-mail X-Original-Complaints-To: abuse(at)newshosting.com X-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 May 2024 09:40:10 UTC Bytes: 4520 On Mon, 27 May 2024 12:29:51 +0000, *Hemidactylus* <ecphoric@allspamis.invalid> wrote: [cutting to the quick] >> >1. You are narrowly focused on one connotation of eugenics. Slattery seems >to be too. But did Teilhard invoke a form of eugenics in his writing? > >2. "[A] nobly human form of eugenics" is eugenics. Full stop. Only in your own connotation. Teilhard says in one of the quotes given by Slattery: "For a complex of obscure reasons, our generation still regards with distrust all efforts proposed by science for controlling the machinery of heredity, of sex-determination and the development of the nervous systems." Let's take an example. Somebody who argues that people with Down's Syndrome should be aborted or not allowed to breed after birth IMO are guilty of the worst form of eugenics as promoted at the time of Teilhard's writing. Let's take the case, however, of a scientist researching ways of genetically eliminating the future occurrence of Down's Syndrome. That is a form of seeking to remove biological deficiencies in humankind and easily fits into Teilhard's argument for using "the machinery of heredity" to improve humankind. Do you think such a scientist should be condemned? Or let's take another Teilhard quote given by Slattery: "What fundamental attitude…should the advancing wing of humanity take to fixed or definitely unprogressive ethnical groups?" Let's take female genital mutilation which is mostly found in Africa: "The highest concentrations [of FGM] among the 15-49 age group are in Somalia (98 percent), Guinea (97 percent), Djibouti (93 percent), Egypt (91 percent), and Sierra Leone (90 percent). As of 2013, 27.2 million women had undergone FGM in Egypt, 23.8 million in Ethiopia, and 19.9 million in Nigeria." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation#Distribution Are agencies and individuals who are fighting to eliminate FGM guilty of practising eugenics (your form) because they are seeking to eliminate what they see as inferior ethical/moral practices in particular nations? > >So I do have answers. > […]