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To: Quark2005
I don't doubt that Hitler, Stalin, etc. 'borrowed' Darwin's ideas. Let's also remember that Islam 'borrows' the concepts of 6-Day Creation, Adam & Eve, Noah's Flood, etc. from Judeo-Christian thought (i.e. the central tenets of Creationism). Kind of strange that 'objective' people see one link but not the other.

In many cirles Islam is explicitly regarded as (at best) a heresy of Christianity and/or Judaism. (See for example Hillaire Belloc's The Great Heresies.)

But totalitarian dictatorships are not a "heresy" on biology...

Cheers!

1,518 posted on 09/30/2006 10:27:45 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
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To: grey_whiskers
In many cirles Islam is explicitly regarded as (at best) a heresy of Christianity and/or Judaism. (See for example Hillaire Belloc's The Great Heresies.)

But totalitarian dictatorships are not a "heresy" on biology...

True. I didn't intend for the analogy to be taken that far...only trying to imply that ideas aren't responsible for the consequences to which they are applied.

Even if Hitler did base his entire strategy for conquest off of Origin of the Species and the Descent of Man, it wouldn't imply those works are factually incorrect, any more than the theory of gravitation would be factually incorrect because some jerk pushed his grandmother down a stairwell.

1,534 posted on 10/01/2006 7:38:29 AM PDT by Quark2005 ("Do not give dogs what is sacred; do not throw your pearls to pigs." -Matthew 7:6)
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