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Author Topic:   The moral implications of evolution, and their discontents.
Granny Magda
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Message 87 of 124 (439564)
12-09-2007 6:48 AM
Reply to: Message 85 by Beretta
12-09-2007 5:37 AM


Re: I guess maybe I don't know the quality of a South African education.
Hi Beretta,
It is true that the ToE has been misinterpreted and misused by undesirables, such as the racists and fascists you mention. Living in SA, I'm sure that attempts to describe black people as "un-evolved" are nothing new to you.
The point is that nothing in ToE suggests that any ethnic group is superior or inferior to any other. That's just race hate dressed up as science. In fact genetic studies have done more to emphasize our similarities than our differences.
Just because unscrupulous scum have attempted to use misrepresented versions of evolution to justify heinous acts, it does not mean that evolution is somehow tainted.
That Hitler spoke of ToE means nothing. He also encouraged his associates to quit smoking. Does that mean that quitting smoking is morally tainted? This is just reductio ad Hitlerum.

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