RE: The Case for Theism
March 8, 2013 at 10:13 am
(This post was last modified: March 8, 2013 at 10:13 am by Cyberman.)
Did anyone really think we wouldn't recognise blatant quotemining when we saw it? Even WikiQuote knows this is a "Notable Charles Darwin Misquote". As Genkaus points out, Darwin went further than the point at which you decided to stop quoting, and indeed continued with:
Really, this stuff is so easy to look up it's insulting to the intelligence.
Quote:Hence we must bear without complaining the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind; but there appears to be at least one check in steady action, namely the weaker and inferior members of society not marrying so freely as the sound; and this check might be indefinitely increased, though this is more to be hoped for than expected, by the weak in body or mind refraining from marriage.
Really, this stuff is so easy to look up it's insulting to the intelligence.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'