Posted on 04/11/2006 8:49:27 PM PDT by Paddlefish
In their series, "10 Days That Changed America", the History Channel will focus on the Scopes trial. As they put it, "The sensational courtroom battle between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow over the teaching of evolution in a small Tennessee town underscored a deep schism within the American psyche -- religion versus science, church versus state, elitism versus populism."
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This issue is hardly tha battle over america's soul, not even close. What a bunch of hooey.
I watched the first two and then a bit tonight. This seems to be a 10 days that changed America toward the liberal view. The Mystic attack was all PC and how bad the settlers were.
Let me know when it shows up in Science or Nature.
Now there are two objective sources on the topic.
You have to picture evolution as a kind of a pipeline or hose representing ten million years, with monkeys walking in at one end and humans out the other. Selective advantage and genetic death are the things which supposedly prevent our seeing creatures of all stages of the process walking around on the street. Supposedly, once a handful of creatures get the "beneficial mutation", the old stock gradually dies out and then the process starts again.
That's basically what Hitler and the nazis were seeing in evolution. Basically, they figured that if the arrival of a new and better racial stock doomed the old stock to extinction one way or another, they were not doing them (the old stock) any favors by prolonging the agony. Similarly when asked about the fire bomb raids, Curtis LeMay replied that you were not doing a dog with a cancerous tail any favors to cut it off in slices.
Hitler and the other nazis were not guilty of any failure of logic; in fact, what you had was a case of working assumptions being wrong. The real criminal in the picture was Charles Darwin.
My, standards are falling. Usually creationists can last at least a hundred posts before introducing inane Hitler references.
Hitler and the other nazis were not guilty of any failure of logic; in fact, what you had was a case of working assumptions being wrong. The real criminal in the picture was Charles Darwin.
Let me get this straight: if evolution is correct, than Naziism is justified? Slowly backing away...
An evolutionist has no logical basis from which to argue against nazis, commies, or anybody else.
Reading about the Scope's trial is what proved the destructive nature of the ACLU, for me. The professor was a nut, and he knew he was a nut, but the ACLU said, oh that's okay, we like nutty people. Besides we need new and clever ammunition for destroying America...
Watched this on the History channel. There were only a couple very quiet mentions of the ACLU being involved. The History channel misrepresented a couple things I found in my civil war research, too, so it is not surprising they failed to proclaim the ACLU's overwhelming involvement. They pretty much blamed it all on the town-that they just wanted the notoriety and all the fanfare and money it would bring...
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