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Darwin, Saint of Science
Internet Archive ^ | 1912 | Victor Robinson

Posted on 01/22/2009 5:50:35 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode

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Just a little something from the past, to put you in the mood for the coming Darwin bicentennial on Feb 12. Who was the "illustrious master" Haeckel? Go to this thread.

Inbred Science

1 posted on 01/22/2009 5:50:36 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode
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To: MrB; CottShop; metmom; LiteKeeper; valkyry1; GodGunsGuts; chuck_the_tv_out; Fichori; ...
Sacrifice a Goat at the Temple of Darwin Ping!

2 posted on 01/22/2009 5:52:30 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
Wallace, unfortunately, has gone over to the enemy-- he has become a spiritualist; there remains to us, therefore, only Professor Haeckel, the boldest and most effective fighter of them all, and no incident connected with the making of my book has given me quite so much gratification as his willingness to receive the dedication.

Says it all. And that mentality is still there.

3 posted on 01/22/2009 5:56:48 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
EONS ago, when the Megatherium and the Dinatherium fought, and the huge tusks of the Mastodon and the Mammoth clashed, and gigantic reptiles crawled on their bellies over the face of the earth, and the yell and howl of Cretaceous creatures resounded thru the primitive jungle, -- the world was savage.

Later, an ape-like being grasped a hanging branch, and raised itself to an upright position, and peered into the primeval forest. This was the immediate ancestor of Man, --- but the world was savage still.

In the Tertiary epoch, for the first time appeared an animal that walked erect, and used a tool, and wore a garment. This was lordly Man himself, -- but the world was savage still.

BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!

ROTFLOL!!!!!!!!

Once upon a time.......

4 posted on 01/22/2009 5:59:12 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode
-- but the world was savage still.

"Teach your children well"... -70's song by C,S,N

-images from Google of "jihadi"

5 posted on 01/22/2009 6:05:47 AM PST by WVKayaker ("There are no facts, only interpretations." -Nietze)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

I always enjoy reading the extracts from your antique collection. It’s a diversion from grappling with the deluge of modern evidence that is continually driving evolutionary science forward. Thanks!


6 posted on 01/22/2009 6:24:18 AM PST by Natufian (The mesolithic wasn't so bad, was it?)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

Why people refuse to see this cult for what it is, escapes me.


7 posted on 01/22/2009 7:02:35 AM PST by tpanther (The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing---Edmund Burke)
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Why people refuse to see this cult for what it is, escapes me.

"Monism" was an organized cult -- the Monistenbund. It had thousands of members. Haeckel's books were translated into a dozen languages. But even 30 years before Victor Robinson wrote that chapter you see above, we find similar stuff in unlikely places (from some member of the Brooklyn Ethical Association who, I think, was involved in education):

The intelligent world owes a debt of gratitude to Prof. Haeckel. It is due to his labors, mainly, that the doctrine of evolution is now as well established as Kepler's laws of the motions of the planetary bodies, or Newton's law of gravitation. No careful student of modern scientific thought now doubts that the law of cause and effect prevails throughout all phenomena, whether physical or mental. Every effect is the exact product of antecedent causes. Thought is as much the product of the condition's under which it arises as is the formation of a crystal or the growth of a tree. There is no room for supernatural interference anywhere. Though the natural evolution of living forms out of non-living matter has not been demonstrated as a fact of present occurrence, there is no doubt in the mind of consistent evolutionists that the most primitive organisms were originally produced by spontaneous generation. Prof. Haeckel's investigations in embryology constitute a most important confirmation of the Darwinian theory, and entitle him to be placed in the front rank of experimental scientists.

-- Nelson J. Gates

Weird and scary, and this stuff pops up all over the place in evolution books of the pre-Nazi era.
8 posted on 01/22/2009 7:17:28 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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To: metmom
"Wallace, unfortunately, has gone over to the enemy"

Says it all. And that mentality is still there.

Romanes went over to the enemy also. At one time he was billed as Darwin's successor (by Times). It was Romanes who concluded, in his book on the evidences for evolution, "the theist must despair: where now thy God?" But before he died, he reconciled himself with the Anglican Church. That is why you never hear about him. All his research and tomes on evolution (and his anti-Prayer, monism, etc. books) amounted to absolutely nothing. Nobody remembers him and evolutionists never mention him.

9 posted on 01/22/2009 7:37:36 AM PST by Ethan Clive Osgoode (<<== Click here to learn about Darwinism!)
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To: WVKayaker

“When the dictator smiles, the sun shines, when the dictator frowns, little children die in the street”


10 posted on 01/22/2009 7:39:23 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

None so ignorant as those who ignore the truth!


11 posted on 01/22/2009 7:56:12 AM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: tpanther

It’s like the global warming cult. All evidence favors the myth, even evidence against it, like the Cambrian explosion of forms.
Humans have a need to worship a higher power and the evolution cult attempts to fulfill that need.


12 posted on 01/22/2009 7:58:51 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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This whole humanism/atheism/Darwinism thing is just another cult that sprang up in the 1800’s like so many others that appeared at that time.

Kind of curious what it might have been in the water or air to make the spiritual climate so receptive to deceit.


13 posted on 01/22/2009 8:02:46 AM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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More nonsense placemarker.
14 posted on 01/22/2009 8:09:41 AM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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To: count-your-change
All evidence favors the myth, even evidence against it, like the Cambrian explosion of forms.

How does the "Cambrian explosion of forms" (a rather slow motion, approximately 53 million year "explosion" that took place 500 million years ago) constitute evidence in support of creationism and against evolution?

15 posted on 01/22/2009 8:30:49 AM PST by atlaw
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None so ignorant as those who ignore the truth!

Creationist "truth" as a flow chart!

Source: http://sensuouscurmudgeon.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/creo-flow.jpg

16 posted on 01/22/2009 8:32:18 AM PST by Coyoteman (Religious belief does not constitute scientific evidence, nor does it convey scientific knowledge.)
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Like I said, none so ignorant as those who ignore the truth. The flowchart has nothing to do with reality, nor with the position of creationists.


17 posted on 01/22/2009 8:52:59 AM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: LiteKeeper

If you review any crevo thread on FR, that flow chart is spot on.


18 posted on 01/22/2009 9:23:35 AM PST by doc30 (Democrats are to morals what an Etch-A-Sketch is to Art.)
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To: atlaw

By the time lines suggested by evolutionary theory five million years is not slow motion. And I said nothing about creationism, which is not my belief.


19 posted on 01/22/2009 9:34:02 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: metmom
The time between the Civil was and the WWI was a time of exploration, invention and scholarship. Humans being what they are, the ground was fertile for the growth of poisonous philosophies too.
20 posted on 01/22/2009 9:44:31 AM PST by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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