"En los países empobrecidos, que han sido víctimas de la depredación del libre mercado, (especialmente en Latinoamérica) se comienza a percibir entre sus ciudadanos una creciente comprensión y, como consecuencia, reacción ante el problema. La tendencia al control de sus propios recursos y a la autosuficiencia alimentaria se está manifestando paso a paso como la reacción lógica, coherente, para afrontar la situación que se avecina. No va a resultar una tarea fácil, teniendo en cuenta el acoso permanente de los largos brazos de los poderes económicos de los países enriquecidos. Pero es posible que llegue un momento en que les concedan un respiro, porque más pronto que tarde estarán ocupados en los problemas de su propia casa.
Sólo les puedo desear suerte. Mucha suerte."
- Máximo Sandín
Showing posts with label darwin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label darwin. Show all posts
3.24.2010
Lamarck y la venganza del Imperio - La fé en la selección natural
Máximo Sandín vs Darwin
El Origen del Darwinismo
"Fue necesario mucho poder, mucha capacidad para controlar las instituciones científicas, para instaurar el darwinismo y es necesario mucho poder para mantenerlo.
Las pocas personas que constituyen el verdadero poder, que son las mismas que controlan las fuentes de energía, las multinacionales farmacéuticas y biotecnológicas, tienen un gran interés en que se mantenga la concepción darwinista de la realidad."
4.06.2009
'Scientism' infects Darwinian debates
An unflinching belief that science can explain everything about evolution becomes its own ideology.
http://www.vancouversun.com/Life/Scientism+infects+Darwinian+debates/1464023/story.html
There are two major obstacles to a rich public discussion on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and what it means to all of us.
The most obvious obstacle is religious literalism, which leads to Creationism. It's the belief the Bible or other ancient sacred texts offer the first and last word on how humans came into existence.
The second major barrier to a rewarding public conversation about the impact of evolution on the way we understand the world is not named nearly as much.
It is "scientism."
Scientism is the belief that the sciences have no boundaries and will, in the end, be able to explain everything in the universe. Scientism can, like religious literalism, become its own ideology.
The Encyclopedia of Science, Technology and Ethics defines scientism as "an exaggerated trust in the efficacy of natural science to be applied to all areas of investigation (as in philosophy, the social sciences and the humanities)."
Those who unknowingly fall into the trap of scientism act as if hard science is the only way of knowing reality. If something can't be "proved" through the scientific method, through observable and measurable evidence, they say it's irrelevant.
3.30.2009
New Artificial DNA Points to Alien Life
http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/090214-weird-life.html
By Robin Lloyd, LiveScience Senior Editor
CHICAGO — A strange, new genetic code a lot like that found in all terrestrial life is sitting in a beaker full of oily water in a laboratory in Florida, a scientist said today, calling it the first example of an artificial chemical system that is capable of Darwinian evolution.
The system is made of the four molecules that are the basic building blocks of our DNA along with eight synthetic modifications of them, said biochemist Steven A. Benner of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville.
The main difference between the synthetic molecules and those that make up conventional DNA is that Benner's molecules cannot make copies of themselves, although that is just "a couple of years" away, he said.
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