Dakmar...
I took a few minutes to decipher that post, and I must say I agree with a lot of what you said.
fC...
These were the Classical liberals...founding fathers-PRINCIPLES---stable/SANE scientific reality/society---industrial progress...moral/social character-values(private/personal) GROWTH(limited NON-intrusive PC Govt/religion---schools)!
Dakmar...
Where you and I diverge is on the Evolution/Communism thing. You seem to view Darwin and evolution as the beginning of the end for enlighted, moral civilization, while I think Marx, class struggle, and the "dictatorship of the proletariat" are the true dangers.
God bless you, I think we both have a common enemy in the BRAVE-NWO.
452 posted on 9/7/02 8:54 PM Pacific by Dakmar
Darwin, like most 19th Century evolutionists after him, was a classical liberal. The political party he belonged to, the Whigs, is the one that gave rise to the Republican party in America. (Lincoln, born on the same day as Darwin, was also a Whig.)
Conversely, many opponents of evolution were classical conservatives. They were suspicious of free enterprise, aghast at social mobility (and abolitionism), and wanted to maintain the priveleges of the (established) clergy and aristocracy. Some of the strongest denunciations of Darwin and evolution were published in Tory journals.