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To: ohioWfan
But you forget that the founder of your faith believed that Africans were not as fully evolved as Europeans.

And the anti-Darwinist Louis Agassiz believed they weren't even human.

84 posted on 04/21/2005 8:42:59 AM PDT by Oztrich Boy (What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called. J S Mill)
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To: Oztrich Boy
And the followers of Agassiz are exactly who? That is completely irrelevant.

You can point out many a racist in the 19th century (most were), but it was Darwin whose racism had a following, and whose philosophy masked as science still has devotees defending him and his imaginitive theory..............even right here on FR.......

86 posted on 04/21/2005 8:51:49 AM PDT by ohioWfan ("If My people, which are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray.....")
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