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To: PatrickHenry
By linking together the concepts inherent in both free market capitalism and undirected evolution, you are forcing the creationists to face some very uncomfortable thoughts about what it means to be a conservative.

Yes, I am.

Anyone who rejects the economic wisdom of Adam Smith, Hayek, von Mises, and Milton Friedman has no business claiming to be conservative.

332 posted on 01/26/2006 5:59:54 PM PST by longshadow (FReeper #405, entering his ninth year of ignoring nitwits, nutcases, and recycled newbies)
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To: longshadow
Anyone who rejects the economic wisdom of Adam Smith, Hayek, von Mises, and Milton Friedman has no business claiming to be conservative.

Yes. And anyone who fails to grasp the similarity between unguided markets and uguided evolution has no business claiming to be a thinking conservative.

337 posted on 01/26/2006 6:03:04 PM PST by PatrickHenry (Virtual Ignore for trolls, lunatics, dotards, scolds, & incurable ignoramuses.)
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To: longshadow
Anyone who rejects the economic wisdom of Adam Smith, Hayek, von Mises, and Milton Friedman has no business claiming to be conservative.

How about those who embrace laissez faire economics and get their paychecks from the public treasury?

338 posted on 01/26/2006 6:03:48 PM PST by jwalsh07
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