Re: Darwinism Showing Its True Face: "Black People Are Less Intelligent Than Whites" Claims One Of The World's Most Eminent Darwinists

Gene Ward Smith <genie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
dbd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (David DeLaney) wrote in
... Aristotle, and the ancient Greeks in general, were NOT doing
'science' or using scientific method. They did not understand well the
process of checking one's hypotheses against reality to see if they
matched or not.

It seems to me that some of what Aristotle did is clearly
early science. See, for example, his work on the sea-life
he observed around Lesbos. In any history of astronomy
Hipparchus is given a huge role, and I think it would be
hard to find a professional astronomer who did not regard
him as a real astronomer in every sense.

Hm. I may not know enough about the subject, then, to know where they -were-
doing useful empirical stuff, and only know the anecdotes about things like
"women, of course, have only 24 teeth".

Dave
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