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To: -YYZ-
You can’t argue that an idea is invalid because some people have chosen to misuse it to justify their actions.

Perhaps not, but I *can* point out that it HAS led to those actions.

32 posted on 06/20/2007 6:13:04 AM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Fred Thompson is Duncan Hunter without the training wheels)
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To: Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus

No, you can’t. It has been used as a justification by people who had their own agendas, but I don’t think it can be convincingly argued that communism, for example, developed out of a belief in evolution. I’ll admit that it was the major driver of the eugenics movement, although again that was a misapplication. Note that Darwin’s theory was about “Natural Selection”, and there’s nothing “natural” about what the eugenicists were trying to do. In fact, what they were trying to do was a lot closer to traditional animal husbandry and breeding techniques, concepts which predate the theory of evolution by several thousand years.


38 posted on 06/20/2007 6:21:30 AM PDT by -YYZ- (Strong like bull, smart like ox.)
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