To: ALS
Yep, Darwin was sexist, but no more so (and probably less so) than the average Victorian male.
Do you actually endorse this sort of ahistorical "gotcha" relativism, or do you only practice it with hypocritical selectivity? Are you going to join in with the bilious leftists next time they denounce America's founding fathers as racists, sexists, etc?
To: Stultis
o i c
"everybody does it"
ahh
2,550 posted on
07/14/2003 8:35:34 PM PDT by
ALS
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To: Stultis
It would be only fair, if he doesn't, he could rather easily be called a hypocrite, but that is NOT surprising to me either.
For he does claim that he is a Christian, I have yet to see it though. So, if the shoe fits.....
2,551 posted on
07/14/2003 8:37:33 PM PDT by
Aric2000
(If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labeling our ignorance god)
To: Stultis
You have to wonder if he is for Reparations as well.
Since we are supposed to feel guilty that Darwin was only human and not morally above his fellow man of the time, most of whom thought that the other races were lesser and that women were for the pleasure and fortitude of men.
So, if we are supposed to feel guilty about an attitude that was prevalent of Darwins time, then he therefore must feel guilty about slavery as well.
Slavery was kosher back in those times as well, so if we are supposed to feel guilty about Darwin, then he should feel guilty about slavery and open his pocketbook to every descendant of slaves in the US, if of course he wishes to be consistent and not a hypocrite.
Yeah, right..... Like he is actually going to be consistent, and NOT a hypocrite, but I am beginning to think that "hypocrite" is a moniker that he wears PROUDLY.
2,556 posted on
07/14/2003 8:51:18 PM PDT by
Aric2000
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