Darwin Made Trump
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When I was a kid, one of my chores was to round up the cows at milking time. They were creatures of habit, so they’d easily come at the sound of my call, trampling the same grass paths in the pasture. Drones weren’t invented then, but if they were, I imagine they could have flown overhead and seen the trampled-down paths making patterns in the tall grass.
I think of these cow paths a lot because they’re easy to create in your mind. Follow the same logic day after day and it becomes so trampled you can see it from space. Everyone is out to get you. Everyone is out to get you. Everyone is out to get you. See how it works?
For more than a decade, I taught high school biology, which included a heady unit about Charles Darwin and how his observations on board the Beagle gave him the insights he needed to codify the principles of evolution. He watched some birds and noticed they had different kinds of beaks. The ones with better beaks had more babies. They passed the better-beak genes onto the babies, resulting in a bird that was better suited to the environment. Fair.
Darwin wrote extensively about his observations in his 1859 book Origin of Species. Since then, the scientific community has pretty much jettisoned the idea of creationism and worshipped at the altar of competition.
