Posted on 01/27/2006 11:04:17 AM PST by Lindykim
Nothing Marx ever wrote makes any reference to Darwin or his work. Nothing. Marx was already an active socialist agitator and author before Darwin published anything about evolution. There is no connection at all between communism and the theory of evolution. In fact, "from each according to his needs" is a flat-out contradiction of how natural selection operates. The claim that Marx built his whacko theories on Darwin's work makes no sense at all. It's a bizarre fantasy.
LOL! I ask a simple question and because you avoid it I'm being coy?
Good one.
Actually, they both evolved from Wolves.
It was through breeding and conditioning, but evolved none the less.
(And techincally, I believe wolves evolved from Cynodictis which had actually evolved from Miacis)
"Very interesting post. I find it fascinating that Marx and Engels may have gotten their theories from a study of Darwin."
Communist Manifesto: 1848
The Origin of Species: 1859
You have some evidence for their time machine I assume? :)
It was Biblical religion, and more specifically the Genesis account of creation, that overthrew the classic pagan worldview model with its all-powerful State controlled by totalitarian god-like Promethean men.
Democracy was invented in:
_______ | | R C M | O | | | --| | | | | | __|__ _ T H _ N S "I'd like to buy a vowel."Thus it was that a group of Enlightenment conspirators, two of whom were Frederick Engel's and Karl Marx
The Enlightenment happened in this century:
_______ | | S F | O | | | | | | | | | __|__ _ _ G H T _ _ _ T H "Is there an 'N'?"
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I could go on, but constructing the Hangman ASCII art is a pain.
ping-a-roo keeper
The end of the Christian worldview holds that only true believers go to 'heaven'. The rest (Christians who fail along the way?) burn for eternity in hell.
However, the other worldview's end is destruction.
In a few billion years.
And yet Marx says this of Origen of Species,
"Although it is developed in the crude English style, this is a book which contains the basis of natural history for our views."
Marx here actually calls evolution the basis of his views which devloped of course into communism.
A statement of the poster's erroneous belief that the author is fit to refill C. S. Lewis' inkwell.
Post #48.
Interesting read Ping.
Er, upon checking the original link, I discovered that the author herself is so presumptuous as to suppose that her mewlings deserve this association with Lewis' work. I can only shake my head.
Asking a question for which you already have the answer is itself the definition of coy.
[The depth however, I must concede, does include all the counterfeit religions found in the world today. Gold tinted with worthless alloys. Tinted to the point of being unrecognizable. Tinted to the point where again by man's free will, and lack of searching from a shipwrecked heart, he becomes as far off course as those purporting evolution.]
I can't disagree with this as far as morality and ethics goes with regard to "true" religion, but I don't include the topic of evolution versus creationism in the realm of ethics or morality. As a scientific theory, it's morally neutral.
[TRUTH does exist and can be found if one searches for it with all their heart. Not accepting counterfeits along the way. With a willingness to bend and flow where TRUTH leads them.]
That's my philosophy and it's led me to conclude that evolution best explains the diversity of species, regardless of how some have hijacked the theory to support their own political beliefs even to the point of using it as an excuse for genocide.
They would still need a time machine, as Communism was developed long before Darwin ever published. There is of course no connection between anything that Marx or Engels actually wrote and evolution as described by Darwin.
False. Christians who fail (and which christian does not?) go to Heaven.
In a few billion years.
No, the article listed destruction which has happened in just this century alone.
Precisely. Smith's model of economics is clearly based upon the basic concept of "survival of the fit" and change resulting from successive generations of culling; Marx's model is a top-down "intelligent design" economy.
I've already pointed out a connection which Marx himself pointed out.
"how do we create a moral society anyway."
Whose morality...Christ's or Nietsche's? You can easily have Nietsche's morality without God, in fact, it demands Athiesm, or at least, a cruel, unforgiving God.
How does one build Christian morality from scratch, without God or the Bible?
It is clear that chihuahua and mastiff were products of selective breeding over many generations from some early dog stock. That is, those breeds were "intelligently designed".
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