Posted on 08/19/2006 6:39:43 AM PDT by RaceBannon
Show links Darwin, Hitler ideologies Holocaust was fallout of evolution theory, says new production
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: August 19, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Charles Darwin should share with Hitler the blame for the 11 million or more lives lost in the Holocaust, a new television special explains. And, the program says, the more than 45 million American lives lost to abortion also can be blamed on that famous founder of evolutionary theory.
The results of Darwins theories
"This show basically is about the social effects of Darwinism, and shows this idea, which is scientifically bankrupt, has probably been responsible for more bloodshed than anything else in the history of humanity," Jerry Newcomb, one of two co-producers, told WorldNetDaily.
Are you gonna realize that when the basic premise of the article is stupid, one makes it about five paragraphs into it and realizes that life is too short to waste on such idiocy? So far you act like the notion of racial superiority only came to pass after Darwin published his theory. Which is a complete joke, as poster after poster has noted. Instead of taking that into account, all you can do is complain that we haven't read the entire column.
You just caught making something up from whole cloth, someone corrects you, and all you can to is revert back to "did you read the article?"
It seems to me that if Darwin considered himself the intellectual father of Marxism, he would not have refused when Marx asked him to write the intro to Das Kapital.
This should be about reasoned discourse, not winning and losing.
But if you insist: you lost from the beginning because you posted absolute unsupportable drivel.
And before the age of science it was because God had cursed the Children of Ham.
All God's fault then,
Methinks you're channeling this dude:
This is just to let you know, it didn't happen.
Junior, I think you're misreading what freespirited said. I was going to post a rebuttal, then realized I misread him, too. :-)
Assertion 6.13: Karl Marx dedicated Das Kapital to Darwin.
(i) This is false. No edition of Das Kapital contains a dedication to Darwin.
(ii) It has been widely believed on the basis of a letter from Darwin found among Marx's papers that Marx had offered to dedicate Das Kapital to Darwin (and Darwin refused), but thanks to some amazing detective work by Margaret Fay, this is now known also to be false: the letter in question, declining to an unnamed person the honor of a dedication in an unnamed book, turns out not to have been to Marx at all, but to another author who later became Marx's son-in-law and apparently filed the letter with Marx's papers after Marx died. The whole story is reported very clearly and concisely by Richard Carter.
(iii) It is true that Marx sent Darwin a copy of Das Kapital with a personal inscription, but it is unclear what it is supposed to prove, even if we assume the very worst about Marx. Consider terrorists who have murdered in the name of God, and the inquisitors and witch-hunters who burned people at the stake for the glory of Christ. Do their "dedications" make God responsible for terrorism, or Jesus responsible for the Holy Inquisition or the witch hunts? Does the fact that the murderers in question took Islam or Christianity to be the justification for their acts somehow demonstrate that the religions or their founders are themselves the foundation of evil? No more does Marx's dedication to Darwin, or his abuse of evolutionary theory, constitute an indictment of evolution or of Darwin himself, even if we choose to hold Marx responsible for the Communists who abused his theories.
(iv) Finally, it is worth noting that Darwin himself never so much as cut the pages of the copy of Das Kapital sent to him by Marx, which means he could never have read it.
However, as stated in my previous post Darwin could not have refused because the offer was never tendered.
What's to comment on? The material is full of factual and historical inaccuracies and logical fallacies. I reject it completely; it doesn't merit a serious response.
Then show some gumption and post what is factually innacurate...enlighten us...
Then show me the reasoned discourse by actually commenting on the articles instead of makng attacks
You keep letting me win this by default.
I already did. You ignored my post and insisted I read the articles. It's obvious to anyone that you will not be persuaded by reasonable discourse, and that everyone else on the thread disagrees with what you posted. So why would I bother wasting my time on a point-by-point rebuttal?
"It's only a flesh wound!"
Yea...Hitler just didn't make the cut. He was a has-been. He ain't got nothin' compared to Planned Parenthood.
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