Non-political

[draft February 2010]

Preamble

We, the peoples of Earth:

 gratefully acknowledging that Mother Earth gives us life, nourishes
and teaches us and provides us with all that we need to live well;

One of the most astounding passages in the Supreme Court's
mind-boggling decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election
Commission -- the January decision holding that corporations have a
First Amendment right to spend as much as they choose from their
treasuries to support or oppose candidates for elected office -- is
this:

Marxism, Darwin, and Jerry Fodor's Flying Pigs: In Defense of Natural Selection
By Thomas Riggins

The philosopher Jerry Fodor is rightfully upset with some of the nonsense coming out of Academia disguised as science and dressed up in arguments purportedly derived from Darwin’s theory of evolution. Lots of nonsense put forth under the guise of “evolutionary psychology” is a good example. Here complex behavioral patterns of humans today are explained as inherited traits from our animal past or traits that we evolved when we were hunter gathers on the African savannah.