Eugene Plawiuk (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} plawiuk) wrote,@ 2005-03-16 19:13:00 |
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| Current mood: |  cold |
| Current music: | To dream the impossible dream |
| Entry tags: | creationism, evolution, lysenko, lysenkoism |
Creationism meets Lysenkoism
No really its a good analogy, by a Canadian blogger from Saskatchewan
Yeah -- like Russia thought that so-called peasant genius Lysenko was going to solve all their agricultural problems because he was just SUCH a good communist.
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I loved this the incredulity every one gives to Lysenko is dropped by even supposedly rational Americans like Gore when dealing with prayer in school and creationism in biology classes.
Cathie is from Saskatchewan, a nice prairie province full of Ukrainians who identify well with the Famine caused by Lysenko....or was it, the reality was that the dust bowl conditions that hit Canada at the same time hit the Ukraine. Forced collectivizatio under Stalin also contributed to the famine conditions. Blaming Lysenko for the poor harvests is shooting the messanger. Of course Lysenko like the christians had faith in his miracles;
"as credited by the Soviet newspaper Pravda with having discovered a method to fertilize fields without using fertilizers or minerals, and that he had proved that a winter crop of peas could be grown in Azerbaijan, "turning the barren fields of the Transcaucasus green in winter, so that cattle will not perish from poor feeding, and the peasant Turk will live through the winter without trembling for tomorrow" (a typical peasant "miracle" of the early Soviet press). The winter crop of peas, however, failed in succeeding years."
CathiefromCanada blogs:
Monday, March 14, 2005
Lysenko rides again
This is nuts -- Battle on Teaching Evolution Sharpens They seem to think that teaching creationism is going to be the magic bullet that turns the US into a Christian Right country and destroys those dastardly librrulls once and for all.Yeah -- like Russia thought that so-called peasant genius Lysenko was going to solve all their agricultural problems because he was just SUCH a good communist.
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I loved this the incredulity every one gives to Lysenko is dropped by even supposedly rational Americans like Gore when dealing with prayer in school and creationism in biology classes.
Cathie is from Saskatchewan, a nice prairie province full of Ukrainians who identify well with the Famine caused by Lysenko....or was it, the reality was that the dust bowl conditions that hit Canada at the same time hit the Ukraine. Forced collectivizatio under Stalin also contributed to the famine conditions. Blaming Lysenko for the poor harvests is shooting the messanger. Of course Lysenko like the christians had faith in his miracles;
"as credited by the Soviet newspaper Pravda with having discovered a method to fertilize fields without using fertilizers or minerals, and that he had proved that a winter crop of peas could be grown in Azerbaijan, "turning the barren fields of the Transcaucasus green in winter, so that cattle will not perish from poor feeding, and the peasant Turk will live through the winter without trembling for tomorrow" (a typical peasant "miracle" of the early Soviet press). The winter crop of peas, however, failed in succeeding years."
