[PetroniusMaximus]

***Gee ... a scientific theory can be twisted into horrific uses. How utterly unlike a religion***

By nature, evolution gives rise to horrific uses.

[Gumlegs]

By nature, evolution gives rise to horrific uses.

By nature, religion gives rise to horrific uses.

Remember 9/11.

[js1138]

As does religion, by its nature. The earliest instances of genocide were attributed to the orders of God.

[Gumlegs]

By the way ... did you miss this ...

twice?

Are you saying here that everything in the Bible is to be taken literally? You must believe, then, that locusts have four legs, that rabbits chew their cud, and that wearing linsey-woolsey shirts and rounding the corners of your beard are offensive to God. You must believe that slavery is okay as long as you follow the rules outlined in the Bible for the treatment of slaves. You must believe that witches not only exist, but you must kill them whenever you find them.

And I added this once:

Oh, and you must also believe that bats and birds are the same thing.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"By nature, evolution gives rise to horrific uses."

Nonsense. Hitler was a creationist. Stalin had Darwinists killed. Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto 9 years before Darwin published. Racism, militarism, and statism all predate Darwin. Darwin himself was a moderate. free-market Whig who found slavery disgusting.

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that some people have taken evolution and used it in social policy to a negative end; that in NO way counts as evidence against the theory from a scientific standpoint. Just as I don't think that creationism leads to a pro-slavery position just because a creationist on a different thread said that slavery was not a moral issue and was not wrong. And the fact the voices of the other creationists condemning him were deafening in the silence.