The anti-evolutionists often post this amusing argument: "Hitler accepted evolution. Hitler was a bad man. Therefore, evolution is evil."
It is a nutsy argument on 10 different levels. There is no evidence that Hitler understood anything about biological science; he studied as an art student. He was raised as a Catholic and reasserted his faith many times. He did not persecute Catholics during his regime (he was interested in his power, and eliminated anybody who challenged his power, equally whether they were Lutherans, Jews, Orthodox, or non-believers.)
mlc9852 posts an argument along the lines: Hitler promoted nazism/fascism. Hitler loved his mother and roses. Therefore evolution is demonstrated as evil.
From this "argument", I can equally conclude that my Mom is evil. Not to mention roses. Be very careful what you say in reponse!
Wacky. Almost as wacky as stuff like this:
"He was raised as a Catholic and reasserted his faith many times. He did not persecute Catholics during his regime..."
Hitlers religion was Nazism, not Catholicism, not atheism and not Darwinism.
Just keeping it real.
Your post #236, is a most excellent post...
No matter what idea comes along, there will be good folks and bad folks using that idea....the notion that the validity of an idea, is weighed by what kinds of folks gravitate to that idea is pure nonsense...
If this notion were true, I suspect no ideas would have any validity....evil, bad people can take any idea, no matter what it is, and use if for bad and evil purposes...and the opposite is also true...good, well meaning people can take any idea, and use it for good and well meaning purposes...
I truly dont understand people who use this line of reasoning...its just lazy...
One time there was some article or another on FR, about some violence or some such catastrophe, that occurred in some school..I dont now remember exactly what it was about, but sure enough, some poster or another chimed in with a post, somewhat like this...."Thanks a lot, Darwin"...I mean, how can people rationally think like this...it makes no sense, its just easy, and convenient, and pure laziness, to look at a bad situation, and then blame it all on Darwin...it boggles the mind...