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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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To: GraniteStateConservative
There is no philosophy of evolution

Of course there is. Or, rather, there is no science of evolution, there is only the philosophy of evolution.

For, whatever be the ultimate verdict of posterity upon this or that opinion which Mr. Darwin has propounded; whatever adumbrations or anticipations of his doctrines may be found in the writings of his predecessors; the broad fact remains that, since the publication and by reason of the publication, of "The Origin of Species" the fundamental conceptions and the aims of the students of living Nature have been completely changed... But the impulse thus given to scientific thought rapidly spread beyond the ordinarily recognised limits of biology. Psychology, Ethics, Cosmology were stirred to their foundations, and the "Origin of Species" proved itself to be the fixed point which the general doctrine of evolution needed in order to move the world. - T.H. Huxley, Darwin Memorial Essay, 1885.

In addition to the truth of the doctrine of evolution, indeed, one of its greatest merits in my eyes, is the fact that it occupies a position of complete and irreconcilable antagonism to that vigorous and consistent enemy of the highest intellectual, moral, and social life of mankind – the Catholic Church. - T.H. Huxley, Darwin's Critics, 1871.


127 posted on 06/21/2007 9:01:43 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (Euvolution v0.1.91)
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