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To: RFEngineer
You are, if you follow the logic of this thread, therefore a hitler-loving racist atheist if you believe in science.

I think the take away is that Darwin is not someone to be idolized. And I think it fair to say that some people do. Does it not seem this this particular insight into Darwin's thinking ought be a bit embarrassing for those with Darwin fish on the back of their cars?

However, I would agree with you to the extent that this has no real bearing on the veracity of the idea of common origin of species. The theory has "evolved" beyond Darwin's views on the matter in any case.

37 posted on 02/24/2009 8:10:48 PM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: AndyTheBear

“I think the take away is that Darwin is not someone to be idolized.”

You are gifted in undertstatement! You may wish to temper the message, but it was quite clear - study/belief in evolution means you are Hitler. Study of science means the preaching the merits hatred and genocide.

This is why the fundamentalist agenda will never achieve political power outside of places like Afghanistan. Most fundmentalists/creationists are not as reasoned as you (though you fall short on calling out your fellow creation believers on their over-the-top rhetoric on this thread, so you seem, if I may be direct, a tad disingenuous)

Science is not faith, it never was, but that is the argument fundamentalists/creationists must have in order to create a “holy war” mentality amongst themselves.

Fundamentalists/creationists have to define a broad category of science as “Darwinism”. They have to elevate Darwin to false-idol status when science does no such thing.

The fundamentalists/creationists have to fight the non-existent philosophical fight with the dissembling that is evident by the most profligate creationist posters on this and the many other threads, and that is that ALL believers in science are Hilterian Stalinists that do not value life, except for the scientific artifacts it provides - and that they are all atheist and materialists.

It’s the Big Lie of creationism that must be preached at the exclusion of everything else. Within this framework a fundamentalist scientist cannot exists. A Christian Engineer is a contradiction.

So, thank you for attempting to portray an all-too-rare reasoned creationist view that admits that science isn’t evil. I think that was your point.

I apologize if I am too tough on you in this post, but the Big Creationist Lie, BCL, if you will, is alive and well on this and the many threads on the subject. It is shockingly Talibanesque.


62 posted on 02/25/2009 5:11:39 AM PST by RFEngineer
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