From: simon@dcs.warwick.ac.uk (Simon Clippingdale)
Subject: Re: White skin-how did it develope?
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, England
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 14:36:40 GMT

In article <1992Aug21.121440.24522@city.cs> lionel@cs.city.ac.uk (Lionel Tun) writes:
>
> I will leave it to the evolutionists to come up with a `just-so'
> story to explain this scientifically.

I note that a number have done so rather adequately.

> Meanwhile while we are on this subject I would like to raise a point.
>
> According to evolutionist thinking, whites and blacks can be
> considered two separate species.

Hahahahahahaha. You are just *so* well-informed about evolution (not to
mention thinking of any kind) that it positively hurts. Clue 1: organisms
of different species do not produce viable offspring (operational definition
of "different species"). Clue 2: folks of heterogeneous ancestry in racial
terms are not, funnily enough, sterile in general. Kind of a shock, I know,
but there it is.

Why do you bother perpetually embarrassing yourself thus? There's a whole
world out there, Lionel, and it's full of people of "mixed race" (yuck!
horrible term) and their kids. (Y'see, Lionel, that means they aren't
sterile. Yup, that's what it means. Check it out. Thought experiment.)

Wakey f***ing wakey.

> So the situation in apartheid countries has an evolutionary basis.

And there was me thinking it had to do with the economic and military
power of a bunch of racist pig motherf***ers. Now I discover it was all
the implementation of the doctrines of Eugene Van der Troenicht-
Blanke-Daaaarwin (the well-known evolutionary biologist) or someone. Really,
Lionel, now's the time to quit before the whitecoats come and take you away.

> How are whites and blacks considered different species?

By whom are whites and blacks considered different species?

References to papers by "evolutionists" in refereed scientific journals
please, not Klan Monthly. Failing which, retract this crap and apologise
to the people you are insinuating are dallying with nazism because they
don't share your ludicrous religious beliefs.

> Well evolutionists like to show speciation has and is occuring. A
> popular method is to say that two sets of organisms that are identical
> but differ in mating habits or preferences `cannot' interbreed and are
> therefore two distinct species.

The test is sterility of offspring, if any are indeed produced. As you
know perfectly well.

> This can be extended to human society if
> social factors cause different races to prefer not to interbreed.

Then you go ahead and extend, Lionel, but don't try to imply that
those of us who don't suffer from your peculiar and debilitating
psychotic disorder are doing any such thing.

> Actually I think the main three racial groupings (black, white,
> yellow) are descended from Noah's three sons.

And there you have it. This is what can happen when you dabble in
paranoid, brain-destroying ideologies, kids. Just say no to fundamentalism.

> Lionel Tun   (lionel@cs.city.ac.uk)
> Vision Group, City University, London, EC1V 0HB. 071-477 8000 x 3889

Cheers

Simon
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