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Just a note: Darwin revealed the processes of natural selection. He didn't invent them. What has been termed racialism in a few posts existed in ancient times and reading Herodotus you learn that the loser in a war gave up his best men to castration or murder (preventing the best in the loser's population from breeding) and the best women were made concubines of the victor. Since in Herodotus' time religions were ethnically based, warfare based on ethnic cleansing/racialism/racism or whatever term you want to use for it predated Nazism and Christianity as did anti-Semitism. In the Book of Daniel (2:43), Daniel tells King Nebuchadnezzar, "As in your vision, the iron was mixed with common clay, so shall men mix with each other by intermarriage. But such alliances shall not be stable: iron does not mix with clay." What is Daniel saying? He's saying marry well and marry the iron, not the common clay. Nehemiah, the prophet pulled men by the hair when they married outside of their race. "Social Darwinism" did not begin with Darwin. It's in the Old Testament as early as Genesis. It's also in the Vedas. ol' sparky - I'm not necessarily responding to your post but I'm new and have to get a handle on how these threads work. im d.

I'm new and have to get a handle on how these threads work.

Your post was fine, but in time you will learn that with a guy like Ol' Sparky, he will probably ignore what you say and go on repeating his dogma. The evolution/creationism threads are full of people like that. It's frustrating, but don't let it get to you.