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To: Junior
Evolution is racist and you cannot deny it , that is why you call it an insult.-me- Race-based slavery was practiced for centuries prior to the theory of evolution

Which is totally irrelevant to my statement. Evolution is racist and Darwin supported the extermination of 'inferior' races as the following shows:

"I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran, not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks, and how ridiculous such an idea now is! The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world."
Darwin to Graham, July 3, 1881.

1,418 posted on 12/30/2002 5:34:03 AM PST by gore3000
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To: gore3000
Oh, it is extremely relevant, dear child. Darwin was a child of his times; whether he was a latent racist has little or no bearing on the validity of his theory and few if any evolutionists hold to a "hierarchy of races" today. However, when it comes to racism, Christianity has centuries of lead time. From the medieval pogroms against the Jews, to the types of weapons permissible against heathens to the enslavement of the children of Ham, Christianity has practiced racial hatred for a very long time. You are the one who brought race into this argument; the lurkers here will see that you are simply p!$$!ng into the wind on this as you do on everything of which you speak.
1,423 posted on 12/30/2002 5:50:16 AM PST by Junior
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To: gore3000
Evolution is racist and Darwin supported the extermination of 'inferior' races ...

But the Bible explicitly supports slavery and God explicitly orders the killing of women and children (when He isn't doing it himself). Let's face it God has, in the flood, killed a higher percentage of living things than any deranged scientist of polititian could ever dream of doing. Now perhaps the people were wicked, but what about the bunnies?

1,456 posted on 12/30/2002 8:30:23 AM PST by js1138
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