[Alberta's Child]

Calculus and physics may have been used to advance Nazism in a military sense, but they in no way formed a philosophical foundation of Nazism.

I once asked an evolutionist to explain why the Holocaust was wrong. His inability to answer that question in a rational manner (it's amazing how quickly a person with a sharp scientific background engages in muddied social discourse at a time like that) led me to question his credibility.

[balrog666]

Since you probably can't even imagine something as nonsensical as that (due to the inherent, permanent place that monkeys have as a form of life lower than humans), you'd have to say I've got a point.

Obviously, you have never read the works of David Brin. ;^>

A wolf, for example, by definition lives in a den -- it can never train itself to create a spider web to catch a deer. In fact, it can never train itself to do anything.

Neither can a baby.

Humans are the only species that will do something simply for the hell of it.

Wrong again. Many species are "curious" and conduct activities unrelated to survival (i.e., for fun). Cats, dogs, porpoises, whales, otters, the list is endless.

I like that point on the evolution of the economy, jennyp!

Patrick Henry, general_re, VadeRetro: I wondered where the fedora brigade went!

[ConsistentLibertarian]

The holocaust was wrong because millions of innocent people were murdered. Why is this a problem?