Re: [DIYbio] Re: Science literacy

On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 6:07 AM 'Cathal Garvey' via DIYbio
<diybio@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> I feel like it's kind of dangerous that the conversation switched so quickly toward assuming some kind of evolutionary component, here.
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> People are only as rational or clever or politically-incisive as the information they are provided with.
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> Your ancestors were as thick as muck, and believed in things that would put you in fits of laughter. It wasn't because their "genes" were inferior, it was because belief in those things was often the only option presented.

Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see anything about evolution and
genes. I mean, societies evolve too, even people's mentalities
evolve... presumably with little or no gene changes.

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