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To: CarolinaGuitarman
That's a joke right? The quote you provided showed that Darwin was a free market capitalist.

Erm... You can read, right? "Law" and "Custom" in Darwin's time included anti-fornication laws, anti-adultery laws, and social penalties for sexual misbehavior. Darwin can be easily enlisted in support of polygamy and concubinage.

And I'm no crevo, Mr. Heresy Hunter.

48 posted on 10/07/2005 6:02:35 AM PDT by Dumb_Ox (Be not Afraid. "Perfect love drives out fear.")
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To: Dumb_Ox
"Erm... You can read, right? "Law" and "Custom" in Darwin's time included anti-fornication laws, anti-adultery laws, and social penalties for sexual misbehavior. Darwin can be easily enlisted in support of polygamy and concubinage."

Nonsense. You're really desperate from your hatred for evolution to make him a free love libertine. Instead, he was a respectable Victorian gentlemen who loved his wife and and gave to his church. There is no way to get from,

"There should be open competition for all men; and the most able should not be prevented by laws or customs from succeeding best and rearing the largest number of offspring." (Darwin)

to Darwin being a libertine or a supporter of free love. It's a call for capitalism and limited government. Obviously you have a problem with that.

" And I'm no crevo, Mr. Heresy Hunter."

Riiiiight. You're no historian, I'll grant you that.
50 posted on 10/07/2005 6:23:26 AM PDT by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is a grandeur in this view of life...")
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