Origin of Species To Be Given For Free, With FUD 48
PhrostyMcByte writes "November 24th will mark the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, the pivotal work that helped bring the theory of evolution through natural selection into popularity. Around this same time, Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron is spearheading a plan to pass out 50,000 free copies at universities around the country. The catch? Each copy will be altered to include creationist propaganda and FUD targeting evolution and Darwin himself."
Re:56 Mentions of God (Score:4, Insightful)
I see Kirk is adding in mentions of Nazis and racism... how divine.
Because evolutionary principle/thought definitely had nothing to do with Nazi thought or racist thought.... I don't know how you can get around eugenics as being something that seemed to come out of evolutionary concepts.
Eugenics requires evolution. Evolution does not require eugenics. Cybersex requires a computer. But computers do not require cybersex. You can write a motherboard manual without mentioning cybersex anywhere. In fact, cybersex tips would be out of place in a motherboard manual. A book on Nazis would probably include eugenics and evolution, but there is no reason that a book on evolution would need to mention Nazis or eugenics.
I'm saying that eugenics ... seems to be a logical progression from evolutionary thought.
I disagree. The idea that inferior genes will naturally die out does not logicically lead to we must kill everyone with inferior genes.
why not help evolution along and get rid of these inferior races.
If they really believed what they were saying, it seems more likely that they would let evolution run its course.
Shooting down evolution (Score:4, Insightful)
Shooting down evolution doesn't grant victory to Judeo/Christian creationism by default. Given that there are thousands of creation mythologies involving sometimes teams of deities, giant turtles, lumps of clay and supercomputers owned by mice -- I'm not sure what ad hominem attacks on Mr. Darwin will even accomplish.
The real fun will begin when these uneducated nits attempt to rationalize their system over, say, Norse creationism. ( Odin laughs at your puny little Yaweh. )