Alright, so we have been blessed in the past with
astounding examples of misunderstanding words,
such as the much flaunted misuse of "GIGO."

It's common.

Not long ago I had someone accusing me of "Gas
Lighting" them within a context which "Gas Lighting"
seemed... crazy?

Ironic, no?

"Gas Lighting," if you didn't know, is an attempt to
convince someone that they're crazy. The context
in which this term was used didn't actually lend
itself in any way to an interpretation where I might
have been trying to convince them that they were
crazy..,

Here on usenet, by tradition, the therms "Godwin's
Law" and "Occam's Razor" are perhaps the most
overused and misunderstood in existence...

The point to this exercise? That we're all quite
accustomed to people saying words wrong. We
are all well practiced in situations where people
misuse words, say one thing but mean another.

This is common. Perhaps more so here, perhaps
not. Perhaps the archival nature of internet groups
preserves misunderstandings too well and we just
recall them better here than in real life...

So Darwin was no different... no different than the
dumbest of usenet (f)Lame warriors.

Darwin.

Yes Darwin said "Evolution." Sort of. Eventually. But
he didn't mean EVOLUTION. He wasn't using the word
as you or I use it. It wasn't using it in any way, shape
or form similar to the modern scientific concept of
evolution. He meant something else.

Look. The communist world under Stalin REJECTED
evolution. They saw evolution as blaming the under
classes for their plight. They saw it as justification for
the nobility -- "We're more highly evolved!" -- and the
new "Science" of Eugenics. So the communist world
rejected evolution. And in it's place they choose Darwin's
theory.

Well. They chose "Lysenkoism," and "Lysenkoism" was
so close to Darwin's "Pangenesis" that few even here
could tell them apart. In no small part because they
were both derivatives of "Lamarckism."

This is serious. This is real. If you want to know how
Darwin thought, if you want to know what Darwin meant
when he was misusing the word "Evolution," don't open
a text book or a dictionary. Don't ask a Dr. Verhaegen. No,
if you want to grasp Darwin's thinking, see what he saw,
understand what he meant when he said "Evolution," you
have to turn to the people who REJECTED evolution. You
need to turn to the darkest days of the most brutal
communist regimes, under Stalin & Mao, and see what
they meant when they talked about their ALTERNATIVE TO
EVOLUTION.

THAT alternative to evolution, what they put in the place
of evolution: THAT'S what Darwin meant when he said
"Evolution."

And this is literally true. It's fact. I'm not exaggerating in
the least. I'm not embellishing my case any. The
underachieving, racist, elitist, plagiarist who never even
tested his ideas, was never a "Scientist," didn't mean what
modern science means even when he used the same
words.

Lysenkoism: Trash. Pseudo scientific rubbish. Only a
moron would pay it any attention.

Darwin's Pangenesis: Brilliance. The product of a
scientific genius. Only a visionary who could see evolution
with the tangle of myth and competing ideas would craft
a theory, nay, TRUTH as awesome as pangenesis.

No, honey, they're just slightly different flavors of the exact
same pseudo scientific REJECTION of evolution...





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