[AdTheNad]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SilentRunning', 'T')he silence from AntiDoomer is deafening...

[SamInNebraska]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SilentRunning', '&')quot;The human ability to innovate out of a jam is profound.That’s why Darwin will always be right, and Malthus will always be wrong.” -K.R. Sridhar

I find the Anti-doomer's tagline to be deliberately irritating - because it is so obviously a lie.

[SamInNebraska]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'Y')ou can disassemble and obfuscate all you want, but I am not confused by your babble. Sridhar lies regarding Malthus and Darwin. Anti (or you) do not get pass by putting quotes around a false statement.

[SamInNebraska]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SamInNebraska', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'Y')ou can disassemble and obfuscate all you want, but I am not confused by your babble. Sridhar lies regarding Malthus and Darwin. Anti (or you) do not get pass by putting quotes around a false statement.

[ralfy]

Again, Darwin's natural selection doesn't refer to innovation but to organisms dying given changes in the environment and mutations that do not help them to survive.

Malthus refers to shortages of resources which limit population, etc., and actually confirms what Darwin argued in light of human beings. Given that, Darwin is right given the human species because Malthus is right.

But technology can be employed to increase resource availability, and this has nothing to do with Darwin's natural selection and counters Malthus' argument only if one believes that resources can be increased endlessly. At the same time, when all means are exhausted, then Darwin's natural selection kicks in.

Given that, both are right. At the point when various technologies and other circumstances no longer allow continued availability of resources, then what Malthus argues will take place. If any mutations from the human species survive various effects of such circumstances or if other organisms survive, then what Darwin argues will take place.

[sparky]

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The way I see it , Darwin is concerned with great grand children
Malthus is concerned that if one doesn't eat for a certain period of time ..one is dead

[AdTheNad]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('SamInNebraska', 'Y')ou appear to be making quite a few assumptions not visible. I think the quote is meant to be more of a funny rather than the serious you take it as. The author has to be claiming that natural selection will somehow solve the population problem and starvation that Malthus envisioned. Just because humans HAVE solved that problem to date certainly does not mean we will be able to do so in the future, and the author is just poking those who are always predicting the end. By assuming something about Darwin's theory of evolution which I don't understand the link to.

[Narz]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')arwin is right, in that those that adapt will be the ones to pass on their genes, but that in no way contradicts what Malthus said.