From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Sat Jun 19 2004 - 17:58:17 BST
Hi MSH.
> My reading of Wilson has uncovered no such assertion. But maybe I've
> missed something, and you can provide me a link. If Wilson does indeed
> make this claim, I can only say that that would put him so far in the
> minority of scientific thought on the issue as to make him almost
> disappear. Therefore one's reason for finding him more credible would be
> called into question.
I don't find Wilson making the claim that one race is inferior to another,
just that intelligence is genetically determined. But, maybe I've missed
something, too.
Anyway, when you brought in Gould as a scientific expert I wanted to bring
in Wilson as another expert to show that there are other "scientific"
views out there on the larger issue of nature vs. nurture. I see your
point that in doing that I slipped off the subject at hand..
> But I'm perfectly willing to discuss the topic from a MOQ standpoint, which
> is why I started this thread. What are your thoughts on Vogel's re Pirsig
> in this thread, and on Anthony's post in response to him in the new
> COSMOTHEISM thread?
Vogel is desperately grasping at straws that have no validity whatsoever.
McWatt is exactly right in his response. Frankly, I don't no why we're
even talking about Cosmotheism. We have so many legitimate viewpoints to
discuss that we can get riled up about that I for one won't waste time on
what is intellectually vacuous.
Best,
Platt
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