You got to love that "Before Darwin, human life was VALUED!" Uh-huh. That's why death by public torture was commonplace for many crimes we'd consider trivial today (including, uhm, blasphemy...) and why the anti-evolutionary American South engaged in horrific lynchings in the early 19th century, while the somewhat more secular North did not, at least not to the same extent and degree. A-yup.
Seems to me there's a pretty strong correlation between religious fundementalism and a *disdain* for human life. Once you've decided your morality is absolutely flawless and without question, because it was handed down by Gawd, you can turn off all conscience, all self-criticism, all need to ask "Are we really doing the right thing?"
And, of course, even if they were right (they're not!) that Darwin led to Hitler (he didn't) -- it still wouldn't prove evolution *wrong*, not in the slightest. That's called 'argument from consequences', and it's bogus.
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This is an old meme among the nutters...
Date: 2006-08-25 02:54 pm (UTC)Seems to me there's a pretty strong correlation between religious fundementalism and a *disdain* for human life. Once you've decided your morality is absolutely flawless and without question, because it was handed down by Gawd, you can turn off all conscience, all self-criticism, all need to ask "Are we really doing the right thing?"
And, of course, even if they were right (they're not!) that Darwin led to Hitler (he didn't) -- it still wouldn't prove evolution *wrong*, not in the slightest. That's called 'argument from consequences', and it's bogus.
http://www.pontification.com/serendipity/index.php?/archives/43-Was-Hitler-Inspired-by-Darwin.html