Comments on: http://matheton.com/2009/10/08/1063/ Journals & Scrapbooks of the Mathetaí Iesoú Mon, 15 Nov 2010 18:48:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Porter Doran http://matheton.com/2009/10/08/1063/#comment-587 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:01:50 +0000 http://matheton.com/2009/10/08/1063/#comment-587 (Oh, Erica, I hope I didn’t seem as though I don’t find your comment profound.)

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Do you want to know what I wrote in my notes next to the part about Dr. Bortz’s theory?
I wrote:
Ha Ha Ha!!!

]]> By: Porter Doran http://matheton.com/2009/10/08/1063/#comment-585 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:00:59 +0000 http://matheton.com/2009/10/08/1063/#comment-585 And I would say he’s telling you a lot of rot. To be human has never been only to survive, and such rot is a large part of what’s shaping us into the lazy brutes we’re becoming.

(Also, chaps like Dr. Bortz will have to run a couple of ultramarathons naked before I’ll feel even a sideways respect for their chatter.)

]]> By: Shaye http://matheton.com/2009/10/08/1063/#comment-584 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:00:36 +0000 http://matheton.com/2009/10/08/1063/#comment-584 My professor just told me that (according Dr. Waltter Bortz):
Historically, for humans to survive was to be active enough to escape your predators and to catch your prey.
Effects of agricultural, industrial, and technological revolutions have caused us to suffer structural and functional body disuse and inactivity…which puts us at risk for:
-Principle of ‘least effort’ culture
-Disuse which depletes our reserve capacities, rendering us susceptible to disease
-Disuse which also results in lack of physical, mental, and spiritual wellness

So I guess Dr. Bortz (and my teacher) would agree with you in thise case……………..

]]> By: Porter Doran http://matheton.com/2009/10/08/1063/#comment-583 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 10:00:11 +0000 http://matheton.com/2009/10/08/1063/#comment-583 That is where culling would be happening, at any rate.

]]> By: Erika http://matheton.com/2009/10/08/1063/#comment-582 Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:59:49 +0000 http://matheton.com/2009/10/08/1063/#comment-582 The real place to look for evolution is where selection is. Any time you read a statistic that “x percent of group y die young/don’t have children”, if x is high and y is based in genetics, that’s where selection is happening. I don’t think anyone even in evolutionist circles thinks this way systematically though, I’m not sure why. Maybe it’s too depressing.

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