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To: HerrBlucher
No, Ben Stein and you never sought to intimate that Evolution could be untrue or evil or despicable by linking it with Hitler. Heaven forfend!/s

They had a few hours to outline the case for I.D., the “persecution” that those “cdesign proponentists” face from empirical Science (which I.D. has vowed to destroy) and outline the supposed Scientific failings of the theory of Evolution through Natural Selection. Instead they devoted much of that time to talking about Hitler.

Gee, I wonder what point they WERE trying to make!

278 posted on 04/28/2008 8:43:01 PM PDT by allmendream (Life begins at the moment of contraception. ;))
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To: allmendream
No, Ben Stein and you never sought to intimate that Evolution could be untrue or evil or despicable by linking it with Hitler. Heaven forfend!/s

Well I can't say what is in Ben Stein's heart, but I certainly don't think that Darwinism is untrue because it led to Naziism. What I am saying is that, if Darwinism is true to the extent that it indicates there is no God and hence no absolute moralty, then it is a very COLD truth, so cold that we cannot even say that Hitler was wrong for doing what he did, or at least we have no foundation for saying it other than we don't like it and it seemed very mean.

However, there are many Christians that accept evolution but with the provision that God is guiding it, or at least, guiding it to the extent that it relates to Man. Within that framework, much of Darwinism can exist. Still, one shouldn't be expelled simply for questioning Darwinism and that, after all, is the theme of Stein's movie.

282 posted on 04/28/2008 9:05:00 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (Asked on his deathbed why he was reading the bible, WC Fields replied "I'm looking for loopholes.")
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