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To: GunRunner; metmom

See post #4...with your endelss red herrings and endless strawmen.

Pre-NEA, before God was kicked out, alchemy wasn’t taught alongside chemistry.

That’s dishonest on your part to bring that silliness up. It’s all your ilk ever offers.

You can post here a 1000 years before me, but you’re clearly, by your own behavior, a liberal when it comes to this issue.

You can’t help yourself, and you are what you are.


107 posted on 01/20/2009 9:21:23 PM PST by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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To: tpanther; metmom
You can post here a 1000 years before me, but you’re clearly, by your own behavior, a liberal when it comes to this issue.

According to whom? You?

How about a guy that debates Dawkins and Hitchens in public forums? He actually puts his money where his mouth is. I think most conservatives would take D'Souza over you any day of the week:

http://news.aol.com/newsbloggers/2007/05/04/why-darwin-scares-conservatives-when-he-shouldnt/

"Darwin's theory actually supports conservative positions in all kinds of interesting ways. First, Darwin gives a dark and selfish view of human nature, which is why we need a tough foreign policy to deal with bad guys who cannot be talked out of their badness--even if U.N. cocktails are served. In addition, the selfishness in human nature warrants a system called capitalism which channels this self-orientation toward the material betterment of society."

"It gets better. Darwin shows that social institutions like the family are founded in the deep human drive to reproduce and care for the young. Reproduction and self-perpetuation are the natural root of human family arrangements, which cannot be redefined as mechanisms of "self-fulfillment" without jeopardizing their biological basis and function. Consider a simple statistic: when divorced moms remarry or have boyfriends in the house, those surrogate parents are vastly more likely to physically and sexually abuse the children than their own parents. Darwinian theory supplies the reason: the real parent shares the same genes as the child and this forms a bond that dispels sexual attraction and discourages abuse. "Family values" are supported by modern evolutionary biology."

"I'm not saying embrace Darwinian evolution because it is politically useful. I am saying don't hastily reject a theory that has a lot of evidence going for it when it has the added merit of being politically congenial."

108 posted on 01/20/2009 9:32:15 PM PST by GunRunner
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