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To: Friend of thunder
I would tend to agree, but many who subscribe to modern Evolutionary theory, deny – as a matter of faith –any divine (or supernatural) influence.

That is their problem. It is not a statement made or implied in the theory of evolution (despite gore3000's lies to the contrary).
64 posted on 06/10/2003 2:14:56 AM PDT by Dimensio (Sometimes I doubt your committment to Sparkle Motion!)
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To: Dimensio
many who subscribe to modern Evolutionary theory, deny – as a matter of faith –any divine (or supernatural) influence.-friend of thunder-

That is their problem. It is not a statement made or implied in the theory of evolution

It certainly is implied in the theory of evolution. There can hardly be any more unChristian statement of purpose than the following from Darwin and it is absolutely central to the theory of evolution:

"With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed."
Darwin, "The Descent of Man", Chapter V.

292 posted on 06/10/2003 7:14:55 PM PDT by gore3000
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