File spoon-archives/nietzsche.archive/nietzsche_1998/nietzsche.9804, message 102


From: "John Duryea" <jtduryea-AT-dmv.com>
Subject: Re: The Survival Of The Fittest Floom
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 09:18:51 -0500


>It doesn't matter whether the odds are against "just the right
>mutation showing up at just the right time." The point is that it does
>happen. Look at the incredible variety of life that exists on this
>planet now; then remember the great extinctions that have happened at
>the end of every era. Not only have just the right mutations shown up,
>but they have shown up more than once!
>
>-Matt


Matt, Matt , Matt, don't get too puffed up in all your pretty finery of
"modern ideas", the pretensions of your convictions are no where supported
by Nietzsche's philosophy which is why you duck and hide when confronted by
his powerful thought.

Evolution, what's in a word? It's metaphysical base resides in the Faustian
idea of directional time and the destiny idea. The same root feeling which
gave every town a clock tower gave us evolution. And has the idea of
evolution been improved upon since Goethe wrote in Faust Part II:

"With Dolphin-Proteus
              Forth we Ride!
Mount my back, and joys attend you:
Let the ocean be your bride.
Submit to a request so winning,
And start to be at the beginning.
Accept swift working of the plan:
Then following eternal norms,
You move through multitudinous forms,
To reach at last the state of man."

The above is a good example of physiognomic insight and in no way has the
evolution idea been improved upon since.

As for you Matt, puzzle this, all your arguments deal with the evolution of
life forms, and offer no expaination for the origin of life itself. Please
spare us ridiculous bullshit about lightning strikes suddenly creating life!
We all know full well nothing like this can even begun to be scientifically
proven. Empty theories as the basis for conviction is all that the modern
ideas of the herd have to offer. What did Nietzsche mean when he wrote
science was theology's handmaid for too long?

John T. Duryea



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