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1 posted on 06/13/2007 11:59:38 AM PDT by LUMary
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Woo hoo! ANOTHER evolution thread!

/sarc


2 posted on 06/13/2007 12:04:25 PM PDT by Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus (Run Fred RUN!)
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To: LUMary

The idea of breeding better humans was around for a long time prior to Charles Darwin. The ancient Spartans for example, would discard babies which they did not deem worthy once they were born. Ancient Romans also engaged in the practice.


4 posted on 06/13/2007 12:06:20 PM PDT by pnh102
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Whew, that settles it I guess!


5 posted on 06/13/2007 12:08:36 PM PDT by Paradox (In the final analysis, its mostly a team sport, Principles cast off like yesterdays free agents.)
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Fallacy here. Evolution cannot be directed or affected by the will although socialists have been trying and recently Pres Bill Clinton said he could enhance the pace of societal evolution.


8 posted on 06/13/2007 12:21:17 PM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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Its a stretch to blame Darwin for eugenics. Better to blame the folks who used his observations to promote it.


9 posted on 06/13/2007 12:23:56 PM PDT by AndyTheBear (Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
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Women practice eugenics every time they decide that a man isnt good enough to be the father of their children.


20 posted on 06/13/2007 12:41:27 PM PDT by freespirited
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Justice Learned Hand, Buck V. Bell, 1927: “...three generations of imbeciles are enough.”

Evidently, the Discovery Institute opposes forced sterilization of hereditary incompetents. In a welfare state like ours, what does that mean for the future?


21 posted on 06/13/2007 12:41:53 PM PDT by mdefranc
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And, in support of eugenics: “Seven generations of imbeciles is enough.” (Oliver Wendell Holmes)


29 posted on 06/13/2007 1:41:33 PM PDT by Rudder
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Dr. West, meet Dr. Tinkle, Creationist eugenicist
30 posted on 06/13/2007 2:52:46 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Laws are for the guidance of wise men and the blind obedience of fools - Solon, Lawmaker of Athens)
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Thank you for signing up in preparation for posting this thread.

You do know you are gonna be mocked, don’t you...

...and deservedly so.

The only question that remains unanswered is...

...WHO were you in a prior life?


37 posted on 06/13/2007 11:08:14 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 (There ought to be one day-- just one-- when there is open season on senators. ~~ Will Rogers)
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according to Discovery Institute senior fellow

Pretty much know what angle this one is coming from, don't we?

43 posted on 06/14/2007 12:34:47 AM PDT by ReignOfError (`)
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Amazing how life evolved to believe in God.. Those that don’t must be less evolved..


51 posted on 06/14/2007 6:25:35 AM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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Eugenics is a long ways from social Darwinism, but we are a long ways from the historical setting of the 1800s. Most of us anyway. Consensus was different then on almost everything we think is important now: Global Warming, cigarettes, the Pill. Still, it is not good to ignore that America provided a large part of the thinking on both eugenics and socialism at that time. It can happen here; it probably did happen here if it was an early experiment in Communism.


95 posted on 06/19/2007 8:16:12 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the Treaty)
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