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To: Dracian
Linking Hitler to Darwin to discredit the theory of evolution is classic ad hominem.

Please show me where Adolf Hitler or Charles Darwin, both long dead, have posted on this thread. The linkage of Darwin to Hitler may be wrong, but it is not an ad hominem attack unless you have a definition of ad hominem different from the standard one.

600 posted on 08/24/2006 11:34:56 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: Wallace T.
Please show me where Adolf Hitler or Charles Darwin, both long dead, have posted on this thread.


602 posted on 08/24/2006 11:42:42 AM PDT by js1138 (Well I say there are some things we don't want to know! Important things!")
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To: Wallace T.
Please show me where Adolf Hitler or Charles Darwin, both long dead, have posted on this thread.


603 posted on 08/24/2006 11:49:28 AM PDT by orionblamblam (I'm interested in science and preventing its corruption, so here I am.)
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To: Wallace T.
The linkage of Darwin to Hitler may be wrong, but it is not an ad hominem attack

Actually, the linkage of Drawin to Hilter could be correct, but it is still ad hominem -- if the intent is to discredit Dariwn's theory of evolution by that process.

Ad hominem is a fallacy of irrlevance. Its form is to discredit the man. But in actuality, that's irrelevant to the correctness or incorrectness of his theory.

If we assume that Hitler derived all of his evil notions from Darwin, it still doesn't say that the theory of evolution is scientifially in error. The link between Hitler and Darwin would have some historic interest, but no scientific usefulness.

607 posted on 08/24/2006 12:00:19 PM PDT by Dracian
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