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To: Cicero
You can make a pretty good Freudian case, if you believe that Freud was still worth mentioning, that Darwin was motivated by his desire to revolt against his religious, authoritarian father, as indeed many of Darwin's biographers have suggested

Robert Darwin was a freethinker.

I can indeed hardly see how anyone ought to wish Christianity to be true; for if so the plain language of the text seems to show that the men who do not believe, and this would include my Father, Brother and almost all my best friends, will be everlastingly punished. And this is a damnable doctrine." (p. 87)- Charles Darwin, Autobiography.

You guys just make it up as you go along, don't you?

85 posted on 11/29/2005 3:07:46 PM PST by Right Wing Professor
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To: Right Wing Professor
And this is a damnable doctrine

It's called survival. Adapt and make yourself fit. : )

87 posted on 11/29/2005 3:16:32 PM PST by cornelis
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