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“Their disappearance from the human family would be no great loss to the world.”

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“إن سحب آليات نظرية التطور على الأمور الاجتماعية واستخدامها كنظرية سحرية تفسر كل شيء بدءا من وجود الدين في جميع الحضارات وانتهاء بوجود مؤسسة الزواج والأسرة لتنظيم عملية التناسل ورعاية الأبناء من غير أدلة قوية على ذلك هو خيار ساذج وسطحي وطريقة غير علمية في التفكير!”

“Darwin is often taken as the enemy of tradition, but traditions are just those social institutions that have weathered selective pressures. The longer a thing has survived, the more likely that it serves an adaptive purpose; “racism” is held up as the cardinal modern sin, but ethnocentrism is deeply rooted in our brain structure, therefore ancient. [...] Natural selection is anything but the liberal’s friend. Darwinism is the nail in the coffin of the Enlightenment, which is why you’re not allowed to apply it to anything except bees and cuttlefish.”