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To: PatrickHenry
"Darwinist" is a word coined to have negative connotations.

Interesting. I don't find the term to be in the least bit offensive, just hilariously inaccurate. I honestly don't know a whole lot about Darwin as a person; most of what we know about evolution now has little to do with his own personal research, anyway. It's as if antagonists think the modern theory of evolution hasn't moved forward since the man passed away and adhere to his ideas blindly without the benefit of any further research. Quite strange.

107 posted on 03/24/2006 11:26:12 AM PST by Quark2005 (Confidence follows from consilience.)
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To: Quark2005
I don't find the term [Darwinist] to be in the least bit offensive, just hilariously inaccurate.

Naming a movement or doctrine after the man who founded or led it often has pejorative connotations. The suffix "ite" has a similar usage: Luddite, Millerite, etc. Thus, some creationists also use "Darwinite."

113 posted on 03/24/2006 11:47:02 AM PST by PatrickHenry (Yo momma's so fat she's got a Schwarzschild radius.)
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