Comments on: Conservative revolutionaries http://www.sellingwaves.com/2006/06/23/conservative-revolutionaries/ A graduate student in mathematics and a modern languages major take on politics and culture with the following aspirational motto: ‘Deregulate your mind.’ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:35:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: Curt http://www.sellingwaves.com/2006/06/23/conservative-revolutionaries/#comment-12348 Curt Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:52:00 +0000 http://www.sellingwaves.com/2006/06/23/conservative-revolutionaries/#comment-12348 <p>Well, it depends what you mean by growth. If you only have in mind growth in the popularity or complexity of a theory, I can understand the skeptical view. But by "growth" I meant primarily the growth of its intellectual validity, particularly the growth of explanatory power and empirical support.</p> Well, it depends what you mean by growth. If you only have in mind growth in the popularity or complexity of a theory, I can understand the skeptical view. But by “growth” I meant primarily the growth of its intellectual validity, particularly the growth of explanatory power and empirical support.

]]> By: John Sabotta http://www.sellingwaves.com/2006/06/23/conservative-revolutionaries/#comment-12287 John Sabotta Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:20:55 +0000 http://www.sellingwaves.com/2006/06/23/conservative-revolutionaries/#comment-12287 <p><i>Social Darwinism may have been premature and even repugnant, but the notion of applying evolutionary thinking to behavior and human society has been rather spectacularly vindicated through the growth of sociobiology, evolutionary psychology and the rest.</i></p> <p>Wait a second - the <i>growth</i> of a theory is its <i>vindication</i>? Now <i>there's</i> evolutionary thinking!</p> Social Darwinism may have been premature and even repugnant, but the notion of applying evolutionary thinking to behavior and human society has been rather spectacularly vindicated through the growth of sociobiology, evolutionary psychology and the rest.

Wait a second - the growth of a theory is its vindication? Now there’s evolutionary thinking!

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