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Old Mon Apr 18, 2005, 07:13pm
Mark Dexter Mark Dexter is offline
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As usual, Mark P. is correct (especially in regard to the 4th quarter not ending until one team is ahead by at least one point ).

However, I am writing this paper for a sociology class, and I therefore used race in the sociological sense - referring to skin color. When I write my history paper on scientific attitudes toward race in the US circa 1800, I'll be sure to bring in all of the appropriate evolutionary biology.

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This is going to come as quite a shock to all the racial supremascists, once someone gets them to go to school and take science.


Amen to that! Stephen Jay Gould, my favorite biologist (yes - I have one) likes to cite Charles Darwin when discussing using bad science to justify discrimination or slavery. "If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin."

Thanks to Padgett for keeping us honest.
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