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To: tacticalogic
I wasn't aware the I had to explain the obvious logical implications of your own arguments to you first. My mistake.

Well see, the problem arose in that your verbiage indicated that you seemed to think that I had already explicitly stated such a case, and that you were challenging such a statement. Which of course caused me to wonder what exactly you were responding to since I hadn't actually stated any such thing. Ergo, if you wish to carry on a conversation, next time try responding to things that have already been said, not things that you think, conceivably, at some point in the future, might be said. Makes discussions go much more smoothly when you actually deal with what people have said....

That being said, I'm finding all of this being attributed to ToE just too much of a stretch to be taken seriously. Genocide and political purges were around well before Darwin. It seems that there is nothing too evil to attribute to Darwin, and nothing bad that has happen that can't be blamed on ToE and that accusation expected to be accepted without question.

Bad things did happen before the theory of evolution. But note, I never said they didn't. That's just an unfounded assumption that you are illogically attributing to my argument (again, the problem you seem to have with assuming things, and then attributing your assumptions to others). My argument is that evolutionism (the philosophy, not the pseudo-scientific mechanics of the theory in the natural realm) served as a philosophical foundation for certain very specific evils that plagued the world over the past couple of centuries - Communism, Nazism, and eugenicism. Please try to confine you rebuttals to those things that I've actually said.

102 posted on 06/21/2007 6:10:50 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Fred Thompson is Duncan Hunter without the training wheels)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus
My argument is that evolutionism (the philosophy, not the pseudo-scientific mechanics of the theory in the natural realm)

Can you point me to a standard reference on philosophy that lays out the tenants of this philosophy of evolutionism, just so I know exactly what you mean when you use the term?

106 posted on 06/21/2007 6:27:11 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus; tacticalogic
My argument is that evolutionism (the philosophy, not the pseudo-scientific mechanics of the theory in the natural realm) served as a philosophical foundation for certain very specific evils that plagued the world over the past couple of centuries - Communism, Nazism, and eugenicism. Please try to confine you rebuttals to those things that I've actually said.

There is no philosophy of evolution, except some boogieman that Christian fundamentalists like to concoct. The "philosophy" of Christianity posits that slavery is acceptable, that it's okay to slaughter infants and toddlers of your enemies, rape the wives and daughters of your enemies, kill the first born of every parent in an area, rip open the wombs of the pregnant women of your enemies, drown everyone, and stone people for things as ridiculous as gathering wood on a supposed holy day. That's just for starters. Christianity isn't particularly righteous. You're lying to yourself if you imagine it is.

All of these things (Communism, Nazism, eugenicism, Islam, Christianity, etc.) have one thing in common-- authoritarianism (the people subject to the rules don't have any say in the rulemaking). Don't try a holier than thou argument, because it doesn't ring true.

111 posted on 06/21/2007 7:32:28 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative (...He had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here...-- Worst.President.Ever.)
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