December 30, 2010, 12:00 am
[W]e know without the benefit of fossil records that the fittest on this earth will not survive and that salvation of the faithful, through a supernatural selection, is the only true principle of life. — F.R. Duplantier
The excerpt above is from a “Behind The Headlines” commentary I used to recycle at the end of every year. I first published it in a 1986 issue of The New American devoted to the evolution/creationism debate. Having realized that the word evolution had been hijacked by socialists and narrowly redefined to exclude divine and individual initiative, I decided to reclaim the word and restore it to its original fullness. Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium,” interpreted as a metaphor for personal evolution (for the artist, or any human being), provided the framework for the commentary.
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December 29, 2008, 10:38 am
[W]e know without the benefit of fossil records that the fittest on this earth will not survive and that salvation of the faithful, through a supernatural selection, is the only true principle of life. — F.R. Duplantier
The excerpt above is from a “Behind The Headlines” commentary I used to recycle at the end of every year. I first published it in a 1986 issue of The New American devoted to the evolution/creationism debate. Having realized that the word evolution had been hijacked by socialists and narrowly redefined to exclude divine and individual initiative, I decided to reclaim the word and restore it to its original fullness. Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium,” interpreted as a metaphor for personal evolution (for the artist, or any human being), provided the framework for the commentary.
Tags:
ascent of man,
creationism,
Darwin,
descent of man,
evolution,
Freud,
marx,
natural selection,
new year's resolution,
origin of the species,
personal evolution,
sailing to Byzantium,
salvation of the faithful,
supernatural selection,
survival of the fittest,
terminus of the species,
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