Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 08:38:46 -0700
Greetings! It's great hearing from you again.
> What! You don't even know what you have on your
Ah, interesting. Maybe you could tell me how the Judas
mythos died, again? And did he leave the coins on the
temple floor or did he take them with him when he left?
Right. As expected you don't know the contents of that
unscientific, contradictory, conflicting paper idol you
worship so there's some small measure of irony in your
complaint.
In any event, The Skeptic Tank maintains well over 300,000
web pages and text files across a number of web servers.
It's impossible to know what the contents are of all of them.
True, while my knowledge may appear god-like at times, my
memory doesn't extend to knowing everything.
In any event I noticed that you didn't bother responding to
my previous solid debunking of your cult leader's notions.
This is typical behavior from Creationists who unthinkingly
spout off their master's lies, find themselves receiving
yet another solid debunking on all points, and then simply
draws a deep breath, blinks a few times, and then proceeds
to unthinkingly re-spout their master's long-debunked lies.
Honest Christians -- that means 99% of them -- don't engage
in Creationist behavior.
'Tis no matter... My only motivation for addressing each of
your claims was so that I might add them to the ICR Cult web
site as a good example of traditional Creationist thinking
and why science education is so important. It's not that
Poster Children are in short supply, of course. Gish does a
better job of it than you do; Hovind qualified even more
than Gish. But you'll do for now.
What's also interesting is how almost all Creationist cultists
persists in ignoring the fact that evolution is a directly
observed phenomena. Dishonest cultist take quotes from
politicians that advocate Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism,
Fascism, and no end of political, social, or militarist notions
and glibly without thought try to equate those notions to the
theories which attempts to explain and describe the observed
fact of evolution. Freakishly bizarre behavior, to be sure.
It is no wonder why Creationists are considered by their
intellectual and moral superiors to exhibit profound insanity?
Hell, it's no wonder why honest Christians around the world
are embarrassed by their Creationist brothers and sisters.
> Hitler a Christian! What?????
Yes, Adolf Hitler was a staunch Christian who enjoyed the
official sanction of the majority of European Christianity
at the time and it's time to get over it. Much as you
might not like the fact, Hitler was a staunch Christian
right up until the day he died. Good people _and_ bad
people can be Christians, dear. Anyone can believe in the
Christanic mythologies regardless of whether they're good
or evil people.
Let's take a look at some of Adolf's more relevant quotes
regarding his religion of choice, shall we?
"In boundless love as a Christian and as a man
I read through the passage which tells us how the
Lord at last rose in His might and seized the
scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of
vipers and adders. How terrific was his fight
against the Jewish poison.
"Today, after two thousand years, with deepest
emotion I recognize more profoundly than ever
before the fact that it was for this that He had
to shed his blood upon the Cross.
"As a Christian I have no duty to allow myself
to be cheated, but I have the duty to be a fighter
for truth and justice...
"And if there is anything which could demonstrate
that we are acting rightly, it is the distress
that daily grows. For as a Christian I have also
a duty to my own people. And when I look on my
people I see them work and work and toil and
labor, and at the end of the week they have only
for their wages wretchedness and misery.
"When I go out in the morning and see these men
standing in their queues and look into their
pinched faces, then I believe I would be no
Christian, but a very devil, if I felt no pity
for them, if I did not, as did our Lord two
thousand years ago, turn against those by whom
today this poor people are plundered and
exploited."
Adolph Hitler, in a speech delivered April 12, 1922
Published in "My New Order"
Quoted in "Freethought Today" April 1990
Hitler certainly affirmed that he was a Christian:
Still a member in good standing of the Church of
Rome despite detestation of its hierarchy ("I am now
as before a Catholic and will always remain so"
[quoting Hitler]), he carried within him its teaching
that the Jew was the killer of God. The extermination,
therefore, could be done without a twinge of
conscience since he was merely acting as the avenging
hand of God -- so long as it was done impersonally,
without cruelty.
-- John Toland (Pulitzer Prize winner), from "Adolf
Hitler", pp 507, talking about the Autumn of 1941.
The "I am now as before a Catholic..." quotation from
Hitler was recorded in the diary of Gerhard Engel,
an SS Adjutant, in October 1941. Hitler was speaking
in private, not before a mass audience, and so it is
difficult to dismiss the comment as propaganda lies.
-- John Toland (Pulitzer Prize winner), from "Adolf
Hitler", pp 507, talking about the Autumn of 1941.
"The teaching of the youth to appreciate the
value ... of the community, derives its strongest
inner power from the truths of Christianity. For
this reason it will always be my special duty to
safeguard the right and free development of the
Christian school and the Christian fundamentals of
all education." - Adolf Hitler
"Today, I believe that I am acting in accordance with
the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself
against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the
Lord" (speech, Reichstag, 1936). Or: "Secular
schools can never be tolerated because such a school
has no religious instruction and a general moral
instruction without a religious foundation is built
on air; consequently, all character training and
religion must be derived from faith. . . . We need
a believing people." (To Bishop Berning, cited in
Free Inquiry, Summer 1985, p. 7a.)
> You don't even know what Christianity is.
I accept Christians' word on what Christianity is. Indeed,
Christianity is what Christians say it is. Christianity
is also what history shows it to be. (And yes, anyone who
says they're a Christian are in fact Christian inasmuch as
there's no other more accurate way to make the distinction
than by asking the person. History teaches us this... well,
most of us learn such lessons. If you know of a better,
more accurate way to tell if someone's a Christian other
than by asking them, do let me know, won't you? Thanks.)
That there are literally hundreds of thousands -- if not
millions -- of different versions on the theme is not
relevant; what remains is that Christianity is what
Christians say it is and what history shows it to be. (It
is understandable why contemporary followers of death-centric
cults might wish to distance themselves from the history of
their cults. Life affirming religions don't exist such
behavior, you know.)
Fact is one determines what a cult's ideologies are by its
actions, not its words. By their fruits you shall know them.
> You have seriously lost any shred of credibility you
Translation: The poor dear hasn't been able to refute any of
the sound debunkings he received at my hands and, when
confronted with the history of Christianity in the guise
of good old Mr. Hitler, thinks he's found a way out of
conveniently ignoring his numerous -- and embarrassing --
debunkings.
Speaking of credibility, you'll note who's unable to address
or even read the other's writings. There's a very good
reason why you've not addressed a single one of the issues
covering your debunking of what your cult leaders think
evolution is. Credibility? Try addressing the _issues_
covering your cult master's debunkings.
> Here is a definition of Christianity, you obviously
Correction: Here is the _version_ of Christianity that
you feel closely reflects _your_ variety of Christianity:
> Christianity (from the World Book Encyclopedia) of Christ,
Since the "Jesus Christ" left no known writings, it's
impossible to know what "his teachings" were. Unless you
have some hidden secret "teachings" only you know about.
If you can find some "teachings" from this mythological
construct, don't you think you should share them with the
rest of the world? It seems rather selfish of you to
claim to have "teachings" which the rest of the world
doesn't know anything about. One wonders why you don't
share your secret knowledge with the world and win for
yourself a number of Nobel Prizes.
> or the religion that bears His (sic) name.
There are hundreds of thousands -- if not millions -- of
variations of Christianity that "bears his name." Since
much of them are contradictory, it's rather silly to look
at a subset and proclaim "that's Christianity" while
pointing at another subset and glibly demanding it is not.
How do you pick and choose? All those brand names of
Christianity can't all be "what Christianity is." Well?
Right. Debunked.
In any event, Adolf Hitler was not only a Christian, he
enjoyed the official sanction of the majority of Christian
churches in Europe -- until after it was clear Hitler was
going to lose the war, then Christian churches started
bailing out of his support -- publicly, any way. Many
continued to support the ideology of genocide even after
Hitler was defeated.
The few Christian churches and Bishops which denounced
Hitler's agenda of exterminating the mentally insane, the
physically crippled, the politically unsavory, and Jews
were at times executed by Hitler to serve as a warning to
other Christian churches if they did likewise. The threat
wasn't needed for the majority of Christianity since they
were ideologically in full agreement -- at least at the
start -- with the notion that the Christian gods wanted
such people exterminated as a kindness to ease their
suffering -- and/or "sinning."
The minority Christian clergy who were opposed faced being
executed as being politically unsound themselves so it's
hardly surprising that few ever spoke out, placing themselves
in jepordy of the fireing squad. The majority, however,
were okay with the "culling" and considered the dispoal of
the mentally disabled and disposal of Jews to be a Christian
kindness.
> Beleving in Christ:
Adolf Hitler believed in the Jesus Christ mythos. He also
believed in a number of pagan religious notions and at
times he also condemned his own religion. I seriously
doubt whether sane people consider Hitler to have been sane.
In any event there have been -- and continue to be -- many
thousands of Christs. There were thousands of Christs
long before the Jesus mythos was collected into the
classical set of mythologies which later became the set
of myths -- with many revisions -- one finds available
today. Many of the Mormon cult's males are also Christs,
you know.
Or didn't you know what the title means?
> following his example of teaching.
Since there are no known records of any "teachings" of
the mythos, one's left wondering what cultists think they
are "following." (Contrast this to the known writings of
other cult leaders such as the Scientology crime syndicate.)
What cultists usually do is whatever they want, then they
go look through their paper idols to find some bizarre
"jusification" for what they did or what they want to do.
Hatred of homosexuals, blacks, and women spring instantly
to mind. A percentage of Christians harbor these bizarre
prejudices and then look through their paper idols for
pretend justifications for their bigotries.
> Showing a gentle, humble helpful spirit
Which contradicts the entirety of Christianity's bloody
and tyrannical history -- which was well established long
before Adolf Hitler joined the cult. Fortunately there are
Constitutions that guarentee individuals their rights and
as such the death-centric religions among us find their
claws have been pulled -- though they remain un-defanged
and as such still constitute a danger to the health and
safety of their neighbors.
Shall we look inside of the latest version of the
classical Christanic mythologies to see just how
"gentle," "humble," and "helpful" the people are in the
mythologies that Creationists worship?
What is the nature of the Jehovah God. Many times
we like to see him as Spirit and Truth, other times
as Love incarnate. Perhaps we could look at the not
so nice God to get a little better look at his real,
non-glossed over, raw character.
MASS KILLINGS AND CRUELTIES ORDERED, COMMITTED,
APPROVED BY GOD
The entire population of the earth at the time of Noah,
except for eight survivors, in a flood. "And every
living substance was destroyed which was upon the
face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the
creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and
they were destroyed from the earth; and Noah only
remained alive, and they that were with him in the
ark." Gen 7:23 [Jehovah, the first mass-murderer,
starts His bloody carrier.]
Every inhabitant of Sodom and Gammorrah, and the
surrounding plain,
by "brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven."
Gen 19:24 Lot and his family fled. [What about little
innocent children in the city and around on the
surrounding plain.]
All the first born of every family in Egypt, including
children of those in dungeons and the successor to the
throne of Egypt's Pharaoh, by God on the first
Passover night. Ex 12:29 [Of those that are in
prison and the first born of the cattle?]
All the hosts of Pharaoh, including the captains of
600 chariots, who drown in the Red Sea while pursuing
the Israelites. "... and the Lord overthrew the
Egyptians in the midst of the sea." Ex 14:27-28
[The Christian God is so childish He has to murder
instead of using His brain. He could have made them
too sick to walk.]
Victims who perish in the conquest of seven nations
in Canaan by the Jews under Gods guidance so that
the Jews can occupy their lands as God had promised
Abraham in Deut 7:1,2. The Hittites, Girgashites,
Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and
Jebusites were all destroyed, every man, woman and
child and mercy was shown to none. [Would have
made Adolph and Custer feel good.]
Amalek and his people, by the edge of the sword,
because God wants to fight with Amalek from
generation to generation (maybe just for fun).
The Israelites win if Aaron helps Moses to hold
up his hands.
[At times of crisis, God gets whimsical. People
are dying everywhere and God wants to see Moses's
palms.] Ex 17:11,16
3,000 Israelites die at the hands of their brothers,
the Levites, every man, their brothers and their
companions. Ex. 32:27 [These were the orders of
God who would brook no disloyalty, a self styled
"jealous" God.]
Rulers of Israel, eleven in number after spying for
forty days that wouldn't invade the Promised Land
are killed by a plague. Num. 14:37 [The first term
limitation?]
250 Levite princes of the Jews who challenged the
leadership of Moses. When Moses points out the
injustice of killing the whole congregation God
relents briefly, then swallows up two of the
princes, "their wives, sons and little children",
then sent a fire to consume the remaining princes.
Num. 16:1-40 [The Christian God lies too.]
14,700 people die by plague who protest to Moses
about the prior killing of the 250 princes. Aaron
makes an atonement to stop the plague. Num 16:41-49
[The Christian God seems bent upon destroying
helpless people.]
The Canaanites at Hormah, utterly destroyed, every man
woman and child, by God at the request of the Jews.
Num 21:3
The Amorites at Hesbon, Israel "took all these cities".
Moses sums up the slaughter: "We... utterly destroyed
the men and the women and the little ones."
Num 21:25 and Deut 2:34
All the sons and subjects of Og, about whom the Lord
said to Moses:
"Fear him (the king of Bashan) not, for I have
delivered him into thy hand." None was left alive.
Num 21:34-35
24,000 Israelites who cohabitated with Moabite women
and worshiped Baal. "And the Lord said to Moses,
take all the heads of the people, and hang them
up before the Lord against the sun..." Num 25:4,9
[Definitely a civil rights violation.]
All the males and the kings of the Middianites,
because they worshiped idols, and all their wives
and male children were sold into slavery. "And the
Lord spake unto Moses, saying, vex the Midianites,
and smite them." Num 25:16-17 and Num 31:7-8
The subjects of two kingdoms on the east side of
the Jordan, in order that Reuben and Gad might
seize the land for their own as a gift from God.
Num 32
The Ammonites, decimated by the Lord so that Lot
might possess their land. Deut 2:19-21
The Horims, slain by God in order that Esau might
take their land. Deut 2:22
All the citizens of Jericho, except for a whore
and her family. "And they utterly destroyed all
in the city, man and woman, young and old, and
ox... with the edge of the sword." Josh 6 "They"
make a grizzly game of it , using the superstitious
number 7 popular in the Bible. [Joshua competes
with Moses, the leader he replaced, for the title
of Gods number 1 hit man as he follows Gods orders.]
12,000 men, women and children die in a treacherous
ambush conceived and directed by God. Joshua, with
the usual mindless hocus-pocus, holds out his spear
until all the inhabitants are dead. The city was
then burned. Afterwards Joshua builds an altar and
offers thanks to God. Josh 8:1-30 [A political monster
worships a Murderous Monster of a Deity.]
All the people of Makkedah, and their king hanged,
by Joshua. Joshua 10:28
All the people of Libnah. Not a soul remained.
Joshua 10:29-30 [Joshua and God were agreed upon
the finality of capital punishment.]
All the people of Gezer, with none remaining, are
killed. Josh 10:33
All the people of Eglon, none remaining, are killed.
Joshua 10:34-35
All the people of Hebron, "All the cities and souls
that were in them". Joshua 10:36-37
All the inhabitants of the country of the hills, and
the south of the vale, and the springs and their
kings, he left none remaining but utterly destroyed
all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel
commanded. Joshua 10:40 [Joshua simply kills everyone
else.]
The inhabitants of Gaza, Askerlon, and Ekron,
killed by Judah and Caleb. Judges 1:18-19
10,000 Moabites, killed by the Israelites. Judges 3:29
10,000 Perizzites and Canaanites die at the hand
of Judah and Simeon. Judges 1:4 [Isn't it nice
how the body counts always come out as nice round
numbers?]
120,000 Midianites die by the hands of Gideons three
hundred men. Judges 8:10
50,070 people of Bethshemesh, struck dead by God
because a few of them looked at/into the Ark carrying
the stone tablets. 1st Samuel 6:19 [The murderous
Christian God keeps the grave-diggers busy with
overtime burying the innocents.]
70,000 victims (more round numbers?) die of a
pestilence sent by God because David took a
census. 11 Sam 24:15
Although Adam and Eve have no sense of right and
wrong when they eat of the Tree of Knowledge, God
accuses them of sinning and tosses them out of
their home. Prejudging the human race he then
decrees that all shall suffer for this "sin" by
returning to the dust from which Adam was made.
The Christian God curses women with painful birth.
Gen 3
Cain kills Abel because God is partial to altar
sacrifices, preferring animals to grain. Gen 4
[The Christian God plainly doesn't like vegetarians.]
At the time of the Flood, a disaster not uncommon to
the tradition of other religions, Noah, an imbiber,
and his family are the only persons deemed righteous
enough to be saved from drowning. All others,
including pregnant women and children, are given
no opportunity to survive the rising waters. Gen 7,8
Again attributing sin to innocents God fails to find
even 10 persons, or embryos in any stage of gestation,
saintly enough to escape the fire and brimstone
(Biblical napalm). God turns Lots wife into a pillar
of salt when she looks back in horror at what is
happening to her friends and neighbors. Gen 19 [Today
many Christians oppose any abortion as a God
forbidden murder. Where is the logical precedent
here? The Omnipotent Christian God is the Abortionist
to abort all abortionist.]
Abraham is certainly willing to do what ever the
Lord demands of him, even when God orders him to
kill his son. But all turns out Ok when an angel
yells really loud to Abraham that it was just a
test to see how much he loved God. Isaac is very
lucky indeed. Abraham may have been near deaf at
his age and the Angel was calling long distance
from heaven. [Truly a miracle.] Gen 22
When Sarah gets jealous and insists, proven Abraham
consigns Hagar and Ishmael to the deserts to die.
Gen 21 [Does this qualify as domestic abuse or
violence?]
Pharaoh orders all midwifes to strangle new born
Jewish children. Of course they refused. Pharaoh
then orders them to throw the babies into the river.
Ex 1:18,22 [What's interesting to note here is that
some Christian parents at the present time deny
their children blood-curdling television and give
them blood-curdling Bibles.]
Moses kills an Egyptian deliberately for beating an
Israelite. Ex 2:12 He then becomes God's Lawgiver.
One of his commandments straight from God is thou
shalt not kill (murder). [Two wrongs don't make a
right. Was Moses a murder even before he led the
Israelite rebellion??]
God tries to kill Moses, because his son by a
Middianite woman is not circumcised. His wife,
angered, circumcises the boy with a sharp rock and
throws the foreskin at Moses's feet. God then lets
Moses off the hook. Ex 4:24-26 [God has priorities,
including the horrible genital mutilation of young
boys.]
After first purposely hardening Pharaoh's heart so that
he will not see the Israelites free, God, through the
black magic of Aarons rod, visits ten terrible plagues
upon the unsuspecting Egyptians. Ex 7-11 [Even the
innocent animals are victims of this truly evil
black magic.]
The needless, brutal slaughter of the Passover
night is the intended result of another hardening
of Pharaohs heart by an egotistical maniacal God
who wishes to parade his power. Ex 12:29 [Thus God
continues his propensity for making the innocents
suffer for the guilty which culminates in the
crucifixion of His own innocent Son Jesus.]
More heart hardening by God causes Pharaoh to chase
the Israelites into the Red Sea, where the soldiers
die by drowning. Ex 14:28 [If God could harden pharaoh
heart he could have caused pharaoh to let them go
free. Nothing to it.]
For "offering strange fire before the Lord", two sons
of Aaron, priests of the tabernacle, are struck dead.
Lev 10:1-2 [Not to worry, replacements are on the way.]
A blasphemer curses the name of God in the wilderness
camp, and God orders him stoned to death: "And he
children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.
Lev 24:23 [The rocky terrain of Palestine broods ill
for miscreants and protesters. (Again God could have
changed his heart and not killed him.)]
Israelites who complain, with good reason, in the
desert, are burned with fire by God in the uttermost
parts of the camp. Num 11:1 [Evidently the Christian
God loves the smell of roasting, poaching, baking,
broiling or burning human flesh?]
Seeing that the Jews are dissatisfied on their
journey to the Promised Land because they have no
flesh to eat as they had in Egypt, God typically
loses his temper again and in a childish way sends
a vast excess of quail, enough to cover the ground
a days travel in each direction and they stack up
to a height of more than 3 feet. As the people
started to eat the fruits of their labor "God smote
them with a very great plague." Num 11:31-33 [I guess
it was better to be a vegetarian after all. Remember
Cain?]
The Israelites are forced to wander for 40 years
in the desert so that the older people would die.
Num 14 [The Christian God despises old people.]
A man caught picking up sticks on the Sabbath is ordered
by God to be put to death, and the wandering tribes
comply. Num15:35-36 [A novel approach to the homeless
problem?]
Challenge of the authority of Moses (remember him
murdering people in Egypt?) by anyone always brought
out the worse in God, and he buries _alive_ the
wives and children of the two princes who oppose
Moses. Num 16:32-35
After striving to reach the Promised Land for forty
years, Moses and Aaron are denied entry because
Moses had struck a rock in anger to obtain water.
Moses is allowed to look at it once though just
before he dies. Num 20:11-12 and Deut 34 [The
Christian God might have shown a little compassion
for Moses who was probably at his wits end.]
God turns Miraim into a leper after she criticizes
Moses for marring an Ethiopian woman. Such unions
were contrary to Jewish custom and also disapproved
of by God for everyone _except_ Moses. Num 12:10
[The Christian God is a two-faced, misogynist Dog.]
Numbers 31:17-18
"Now therefore kill every male among the little
ones, and kill every woman who hath known man by
lying with him. But all the women children, that
have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive
for yourselves."
After reviewing what the classical Christanic mythologies have to
say about the Christian pantheon, I think we can put "paid" to
the notion of "...showing a gentle, humble helpful spirit..."
> Hitler was CLEARLY NONE OF THIS
Adolf Hitler was all of the above and much more: Not only
did he not do anything which Christians hadn't done to
Jews and other "infidels" long before Hitler was born, but
he was applauded and supported by the majority of Christian
clergy during his rise to power. That included the known
policies of killing the mentally insane, the politically
unsavory, and the "sinners" of Judaism.
It was only after a thoughtful prognosis of Hitler's war
yielded the likely fact of his defeat that Christians
started to try to distance themselves from Hitler and his
genocidal policies. But that's a common trait one can see
in any religious grouping of individuals. Additionally as
his defeat grew nearer, retribution and retaliation (that
is, facing a fireing squad) for speaking out against his
policies of genocide became less of a threat.
> (and you say creationists and christians are liars)
Almost all Christians are honest enough to accept the fact
of evolution and other sciences. It's only a very small
percentage that cling to their Creationist occultism and,
in so doing, have no choice but to lie to themselves first
and foremost, but then to anyone who bothers addressing
the cultist's notions.
> from http://www.evolution-facts.org/c19b.htm (go to this
You haven't bothered to read -- or try to respond -- to any of
the debunking you've already been handed. As yet all you've
done is unthinkingly -- and stupidly -- spouted lies and
stupidities fed to you by your cult leaders like a busted
shitpipe.
This is an admirable feat since you're sitting there with
your severed head lying beside you. This lends further
evidence to the suggestion that Creationists don't need
their heads since they never have use for what's inside
them.
I've read your cult leader's lies, and I've debunked them
point-for-point. If you want me to read and debunk more of
your cult leaders' lies, please post them in E-mail --
provided they're new and I've not debunked them yet. I
would be glad to go through them and debunk them as well.
It would be my pleasure.
> especially the chapters on Evolution, Morality and
Evolution doesn't have the concepts of "morality," "violence,"
or "histories of evolutionary thought." Ergo those are not
part of any theory of evolution.
Why don't you go to your local library and find out what
evolution is and what evolution is not? Could it be
because you know that you and your cult leaders are by
choice pathological liars?
You obviously know that evolution has nothing to do with
politics, and you obviously know that evolution is a
directly observed phenomena. What keeps you from going
to your local library and confirming what your own senses
tells you is true is your mistaken notion that the fact
of evolution -- and other sciences -- some how adversely
impacts the existance of your superstitious constructs.
It doesn't: science has nothing to say either for or
against untestable superstitions. Science addresses only
that which is testable, starting with what is observed.
What we see in Creationists is what's known as "cognitive
dissonance." The ability to believe in mutually contradictory
things. I looks to me as though Creationists know internally
that evolution happens and is observable yet at the same time
they also believe that the fact some how threatens the existance
of their invisible playmates. They see speciation, know that
it takes place, then shuffle the truth back to the dusty
shelves of their bifurcated brain, hoping that the truth
they ovserved won't intrude upon their conscience thought
least they go to Hell and don't get to play paddy-cake with
their invisible friends. Bizarre, yes.
In rational, honest individuals the contradiction would be
solved by divesting themselves of the unevidence notions of
their invisible playmates in favor of what their own
senses and reason tell them. In dishonest, pathologically
stupid individuals the contradiction results in retaining
an internalized acceptance of science while at the same
time maintaining a mistaken belief that said science some
how detracts from their own mythological constructs.
The cognitive dissonance which results causes an ever-
increasing spiral of dysfunctional behavior to be exhibited
by the Creationist and thus we observe what appears to be
a subset of humanity which has divested itself of all
reason, all honesty, all integrity, all thought, and all
sanity.
This condition wouldn't motivate society to regulate their
behavior and beliefs were it not for the fact that these
unfortunate individuals seek to impose their pathology
upon innocent children in the public schools. Were it
not for the fact that these mentally damaged individuals
threaten the health, safety, and quality education of our
public school students, they would be ignored as further
evidence of man's capacity for self delusion, gullibility,
and willful ignorance.
Caught in the middle are honest Christians, the majority,
who are greatly embarrassed by their Creationist brothers
and sisters who purport to speak for all of Christianity.
> This is from that website: (so what that I copied
Which I debunked totally and, in so doing, upset you badly,
it seems.
It wasn't my intention to hurt your feelings with the truth.
Nor was it my intention to drive you insensate with anger. My
motivations were solely to debunk your cult leader's nonsense
so that I might add it to the ICR Cult web site. Which I
will do shortly.
The fact that you couldn't address any part of the sound
debunkings you were handed is highly relevant to the total
lack of validity your cult leader's claims hold, by the way.
> By the way, the people quoted here with a * by their
And neither are they scientists speaking within the venue
of biology. Let's see what tired old claims you're going
to cut-and-paste once again from your insane cult leaders.
What's expected is "more of the same," the cultist trying
to equate political, economical, or military ideologies as
some how being evolution. Let's see:
> *Adolf Hitler's famous Mein Kampf was based on evolutionary
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Additionally within that book Hitler talks about his own
Christianity. Don't you find it dishonest to quote from a
book which supports your mistaken notions and "forget" to
note that the very same book debunks them?
> The very title of his book was copied from a Darwinian
Evolution doesn't have a concept of "my struggle" and as
such does not constitute any of the theories of evolution.
What the set of theories which attempt to explain and
describe the observed fact of evolution have to say is
that a given species is observed to be more able to
survive or less able to survive in a given ecological
nitch than other given species being observed. Indeed,
contemporary theories of evolution make predictions
about environmental factors motivating the speciation
events science observes and as such confirms the validity
of those aspects of those theories.
> "One need not read far in Hitler's Mein Kampf to find
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concepts of "master races,"
"genocide," "breeding experiments" or "etc" and as such
doesn't constitute any of the theories of evolution.
The set of theories which attempts to explain and describe
the observed fact of evolution _does_ explain why breeding
plants and animals for specific sets of alelle traits works
and some times doesn't work. Before the advent of the
discovery of genetics and the discovery of RNA and DNA,
the physics and biology behind breeding were unknown yet
still people were able to make use of the practice, using
evolutionary theories to develope strains of grain staples
which could survive in ecological nitches their ancestors
could not.
Funny how knowledge about evolution -- how it works and
why -- manages to feed a populace which would have starved
out their numbers significantly without such knowledge, huh?
The Earth herself isn't bountyful enough to support the
population the world currently has and massive intervention
by science -- evolution as well as many others -- is what's
keeping the populace fed -- at least a percentage of the
populace, any way.
Not only is the corn that you eat, the tomatoes that you
eat, the beef that you eat, and the potatoes that you eat
the result of genetic manipulations resulting from a good
understanding of evolution, but the paper you may write
on and the water that you may drink are the result of
understanding the biological sciences of evolution -- due
to the purification processes of reused potables, and the
biological development of pulping organisms.
Creationists -- if left alone to wallow in their own self
delusional, willful ignorance -- would starve to death.
I would be in favor of such were it not for the fact that
they would take their own children along with them and
also threaten to drag their intellectual superiors down
into self destruction with them.
> "[The position in Germany was that] Man must 'conform' to
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "must," "conformity,"
or "ruthless" and as such doesn't constitute any of the
theories of evolution.
> The 'fittest' must never stand in the way of the law
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "progress" and as
such doesn't constitute any of the theories of evolution.
Also a species that's not "fit" in one environment will be
"fit" in another environment. This is one of the many
directly observed predictions made by the set of theories
which attempts to describe and explain the observed fact
of evolution.
> In its extreme form, that social view was used in Nazi
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have any concepts of "social views,"
"fascism," "justification," "sterilization," or "mass
murder," neither does it have the concepts of "incompetent"
or "inferior." As such these notions don't constitute any
of the theories of evolution.
> The undesirables had to be eliminated.
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the notion of "undesirables" and
as such doesn't constitute any of the theories of evolution.
> "During the 1930s, Adolf Hitler believed he was carrying
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concepts of "doctrines,"
"undesirables," "individuals," "inferiority," "new orders,"
or "master faces." As such these concepts don't constitute
any of the theories of evolution.
> Specialists in Hitlerian studies note that *Hitler
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Adolf Hitler was a staunch Christian who enjoyed the official
sanction of the majority of European Christianity. In any
> But that is understandable, for the two are as different
Adolf Hitler didn't do anything that Christianity hadn't done
over the long and bloody history of Christianity since it's
inception. Indeed, the only reason why Christianity managed
to survive was by being the single most bloody and tyrannical
cult to ever come out of the Middle East bar none.
> "[Hitler] stressed and singled out the idea of biological
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
> For Hitler, evolution was the hallmark of modern science
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
> *Hitler said this:
Which doesn't detract from the fact that Adolf Hitler was
a staunch Christian who enjoyed the official sanction of
the majority of European Christianity.
> "This doctrine of racial supremacy Hitler took at
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "supremacy" and as
such doesn't constitute any of the theories of evolution.
> "Sixty-three million people would be slaughtered in
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the notion of "doctrines" and as such
doesn't constitute any of the theories of evolution.
> A Jewish biology professor at Purdue University, writing
Someone speaking outside his venue offering opinions that
are unfounded -- and stupid. Most theists accept the
fact of evolution. Additionally Christianity set the stage
for allowing Adolf Hitler to do what he did knowing well
in advance that Christianity would officially applaud the
extermination of Jews given Christianity's history of
slaughter.
> *Hitler's fascination with Darwinian thinking went
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Not only didn't Hitler know what evolution is and what it
is not -- just as you don't know what it is -- Hitler's
Christianity "went back to his birth" and continued until
the day he died.
> "Adolf Hitler's mind was captivated by evolutionary
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution also doesn't have the concept of a "right to life"
and as such doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> Another article that I found to be interesting
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "inferior" and as
such doesn't constitute any of the theories of evolution.
> Where did they get such an idea?
Adolf Hitler observed the history of his Christian cult and
employed the traditions that came before him. The endless
slaughter of Jews and others by Christianity down through
the centuries was the template which Hitler followed to
justify his attempted genocide of all Jews from Europe.
> Several 17th, 18th and 19th century philosophers proposed
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "philosophies" and
as such doesn't constitute any of the theories of evolution.
> However, some theories took public attention and
How utterly silly. Charles Darwin was himself a Creationist
however he managed to apply the scientific method toward
his studies of observed speciation. Ergo Charles Darwin was
a scientist.
Additionally evolution doesn't have the concept of "axes to
grind" and as such doesn't constitute any of the theories
of evolution.
> The subtitle of this book was, "The Preservation of
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "favored" and as
such does not constitute any of the theories of evolution.
> Its major theme was the development of superior races
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concepts of "superior" or
"inferior." As such these notions don't constitute any
of the theories of evolution.
> It suggested the natural path of eliminating inferior
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "inferior." As such
this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> Other scholars seized upon it to show the superiority
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "superiority." As
such this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> For example, the liberal Darwinist, Thomas Huxley, in
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concepts of "lowest." "savages,"
"devoid," or "brutes." As such these notions don't constitute
any of the theories of evolution.
> Huxley also wrote,"The savages are akin to the brutes."
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concepts of "savages," or
"brutes." As such these notions don't constitute any of
the theories of evolution.
> Adolf Hitler became enamored of Darwinism. He was
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concepts of "contamination," or
"superior." As such these notions don't constitute any of
the theories of evolution.
> He tried to eliminate the "unfit," such as physically
And Christianity applauded the practice as something that
the Christian gods would want him to do.
> He tried breeding nests for superior types to steer
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "superiority." As
such this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> In the US, the white supremacy movement appeared in
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "superiority." As
such this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
Additionally the KKK is a _Christian_ organization which
usually meets in Christian churches across the United
States. The KKK, Aryan Nations, Church of Jesus Christ
Christian, all the Identity versions of Christianity...
they're all Christianity.
One wonders why this Creationist "forgot" to mention that.
> In the Tennessee Scopes' trial, Scopes' textbook, "A
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "highest." As such
this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> As the civil rights movement grew, organizations were
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "inferior." As such
this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> Some of their "scientific" revelations are nasty,
One wonders whether this cultist thinks that all social,
political, or economical abuses are the result of people
not understanding a science.
> As years passed, many scientists rebelled, resulting
<laughing> How utterly silly. No scientist speaking within
his or her venue suggests that evolution doesn't happen
some how. What we see are a lot of stupid people who think
they're some how capable of commenting on biological
sciences because they hold degrees in hydraulic engineering
while also holding pathological notions about invisible
super friends.
The reason why none of these cultists publish in scientific
peer reviewed journals is because they can't: what these
cultists do and say about biology isn't science.
> Another ariticle I "copied and pasted"
While at the same time ignoring the previous two debunkings
I handed to you. That's typical of Creationist cultists
who are too cowardly to even bother reading the truth
about science.
> Racism Darwinism has provided scientific support to
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concepts of "racism," "man's will,"
or "savage." As such these notions don't constitute any of
the theories of evolution.
> "At some future period, not very distant as measured
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concepts of "racism," "civilized,"
or "savage." As such these notions don't constitute any of
the theories of evolution.
> At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as
And Christianity sure gave it a couple of good tries in
the past, huh?
> The break between man and his nearest allies will then
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concepts of "allies," or
"civilized." As such these notions don't constitute any
of the theories of evolution.
> Darwin predicted that "...the lower races will have
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concepts of "lower," or "higher."
As such these notions don't constitute any of the theories
of evolution.
> "The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "civilized." As
such this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> Looking to the world at no very distant date, what
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concepts of "lower," or "higher."
As such these notions don't constitute any of the theories
of evolution.
> T.H. Huxley claimed that "no rational man...believes
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concepts of "equal," or "superior."
As such these notions don't constitute any of the theories
of evolution.
> "It may be quite true that some negroes are better
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concepts of "better," or "equal,"
or "superior." As such these notions don't constitute any
of the theories of evolution.
> And, if this be true, it is simply incredible that,
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
> The highest places in the hierarchy of civilisation
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concepts of "highest," or "lowest,"
As such these notions don't constitute any of the theories
of evolution.
> Eugenics Darwinism has provided scientific support
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concepts of "eugenics," or "weak
members," or "civilization." As such these notions don't
constitute any of the theories of evolution.
> "With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "savages." As such
this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "civilized." As such
this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> There is reason to believe that vaccination has
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "civilized." As such
this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "degeneration." As
such this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> Nazism "A direct line runs from Darwin...to the
Hitler's attempts to exterminate Jews was the direct
consequences of Christianity's attempts previously
described in the cult's bloody history. Hitler didn't
do anything which Christianity hadn't done long before
Hitler was born.
> "Haeckel was the chief apostle of evolution in
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "apostles." As such
this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> His evolutionary racism ... contributed to the rise
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "racism." As such
this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> "Since Darwin's death, all has not been rosy in the
Most of them Christian, amusingly enough.
> A direct line runs from Darwin, through the founder
Unfounded opinions offered by individuals speaking outside
of their venue. Also ignores Christianity's bloody history.
> "Haeckel was the chief apostle of evolution in Germany. ...
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "apostles." As such
this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> His evolutionary racism ... contributed to the rise of Nazism"
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "racism." As such
this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> "Haeckel was the chief apostle of evolution in Germany.
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "apostles." As such
this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> Nordenskiold (1929) argues that he was even more
And in fact evolution is a directly observed phenomena not
subject to belief or disbelief.
> But, as Gasman argues, Haeckel's greatest influence
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "socialism." As such
this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> His evolutionary racism;
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "racism." As such
this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> his call to the German people for racial purity and
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concept of "racial purity." As
such this notion doesn't constitute any of the theories of
evolution.
> his belief that harsh, inexorable laws of evolution
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concepts of "civilization," or
"favored," "domination," "mysticism," "rights," or "Nazism."
As such these notions don't constitute any of the theories
of evolution.
> The Monist League that he had founded and led, though
Debunked soundly in my previous reply to you. Ignored
utterly by you because you weren't interested in the truth.
Evolution doesn't have the concepts of "pacifists," or
"leftists." As such these notions don't constitute any
of the theories of evolution.
> Golly, we hicks out here in the Ozarks do actually
Your local library apparently didn't have any books
on evolution. That's another traditional behavior from
Creationist cultists: it's not that they don't know there
are books widely available at their local library which
will describe what evolution is and what evolution is not,
it's that these Creationist cultists don't _want_ to know
what evolution is and what it is not.
The reason why cultists cling to their superstitions in
the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary is not
because they're wholly insane -- appearances to the
contrary -- but because they mistakenly think that the
truth adversely impacts their comfortable superstitions
some how.
Yes, your local library could teach you some things about
science. No, your mental dysfunction precludes you making
use of your local library when it comes to anything which
you mistakenly think will exterminate your superstitions.
In fact the vast majority of theists accept the fact of
evolution while at the same time continue to believe in
their deity constructs with perfect comfort. It is
-- fortunately -- only a small percentage of theists in
the world that some how think science has anything to say
one way or another about untestable notions.
Science and occult superstition are never in conflict when
said superstitions are untestable. Granted, when an occult
notion lends itself toward being tested, science always
wins. When it comes to deity constructs, however, those
remain outside the venue of science because they can't
be tested.
Most theists are comfortable in their occult superstitions
enough that they can also accept science. There may be
good reason to suspect that the Creationists among us are
weak in their faith and as such are unwilling to accept
science.
> And this is what one of them sed: "Adolph (sic) Hitler
An unfounded opinion stated by someone speaking outside of
his or her venue.
> Fine, if you want to put anything I said on your
I'm sure. That's another traditional trait of Creationist
cultists: they don't seem to be able to be embarrassed by
their own behavior.
> Perhaps someone seeing the truth would actually help someone.
That I seriously doubt since Creationist cultists
don't want to admit the truth about sciences they mistakenly
think some how exterminates their gods and goddesses. Those
who don't employ reason can't be reasoned with and I seriously
doubt whether any Creationist has ever been swayed by the
truth of what their own senses tell them.
Most theists, of course, accept the observed fact of
evolution. To do otherwise is to exhibit behavior that is
remarkably akin of a profoundly disturbed mind; one that's
incapable of separating fact from fiction, reality from
fairy stories.
> I must end our conversation here. Please don't email
You didn't spend any time since you had no intention to
read the truth about what your cult leaders have been
selling you. What you did was generally called the "Gish
Gallup" -- unthinkingly spout off a lot of stupid lies in
rapid order and then, when confronted with a sound
debunking on all points, blink a few times and then
rattle off another endless series of stupid lies.
It's hard to find another subset of humanity which exhibits
all the unfavorable traits which Creationists exhibit as a
matter of their unthinking programming. Running away from
the truth to try to hold on to a knowingly false yet
comforting superstition is, unfortunately, one of
humanity's most unenviable genetic traits, a trait which
is the result of humanity's evolutionary development.
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"You can lie about ICR all you want." --
Jason Daniel Henderson
"Thank you for your permission however there's never any need
to. Creationist propaganda is already self-debunking." --
Fredric L. Rice
From: "WHATSUPDOC" <WHATSUPDOC@prodigy.net>
Subject: Your website
> own website! Amazing! Perhaps you should read it
> sometime.
"My feeling as a Christian points me to my Lord
and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man
who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few
followers, recognized these Jews for what they
were and summoned men to fight against them and
who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer
but as a fighter.
The Fuhrer made it known to those entrusted with the
Final Solution that the killings should be done as
humanely as possible. This was in line with his
conviction that he was observing God's injunction
to cleanse the world of vermin.
> might have thought you had.
> don't know what it is.
> His (sic) teachings,
> website and actually read it,
> Violence and the History of Evolutionary Thought)
> and pasted, it's the message that is important)
> name are not creationists.
> theory.
> expression; it means "My Struggle" [to survive and overcome].
> that evolution likewise influenced him and his views
> on the master race, genocide, human breeding experiments,
> etc."-Robert Clark, Darwin: Before and After (1048), p. 115.
> nature's processes, no matter how ruthless.
> of evolutionary progress.
> Germany to justify sterilization and mass murder of the
> 'unfit,' 'incompetent,' 'inferior races.' "-*R. Milner,
> Encyclopedia of Evolution (1990), p. 412.
> Darwinism forward with his doctrine that undesirable
> individuals (and inferior races) must be eliminated in
> the creation of the New Order dominated by Germany's Master
> Race."-*R. Milner, Encylopedia of Evolution (1990), p. 119.
> hated Christianity as fiercely as he loved Darwin's theory.
> as day and night.
> evolution as the most forceful weapon against traditional
> religion and he repeatedly condemned Christianity for its
> opposition to the teaching of evolution . .
> and culture, and he defended its veracity as tenaciously
> as Haeckel."-*Daniel Gasman, Scientific Origins of Modern
> Socialism: Social Darwinism in Ernst Haeckel and the
> German Monist League (1971), p. 188.
> "I regard Christianity as the most fatal, seductive
> lie that has ever existed."-*Adolf Hitler, quoted in
> Larry Azar, Twentieth Century in Crisis (1990), p. 155.
> face value . . He accepted evolution much as we today
> accept Einsteinian relativity."-*Larry Azar, Twentieth
> Century in Crisis (1990), p. 180.
> order to obey the evolutionary doctrine that perishing
> is a law of nature."-*Op. cit., p. 181.
> for the Association of Orthodox Jewish Scientists, said
> this:
> "I cannot deny that the theory of evolution, and the
> atheism it engendered, led to the moral climate that
> made a holocaust possible."-*Edward Simon, "Another
> Side to the Evolution Problem," Jewish Press, January
> 7, 1983, p. 248.
> back to his childhood.
> thinking-probably since the time he was a boy. Evolutionary
> ideas, quite undisguised, lie at the basis of all that is
> worst in Main Kampf and in his public speeches. A few
> quotations, taken at random, will show how Hitler reasoned . .
> [*Hitler said:] 'He who would live must fight; he who does
> not wish to fight, in this world where permanent struggle
> is the law of life, has not the right to exist.' "-*Robert
> E.D. Clark, Darwin: Before and After (1948), p. 115.
> Darwin - Father of Racism by Russell Leitch
> Survival of the fittest" is a concept seized upon by
> Nazis in their drive to eliminate inferior races.
> the concept about the same time as initial research was
> developing among pioneer scientists. There was a tendency
> to develop theories among them based upon the scant
> information available. (Posing theories was useful in
> directing further avenues to explore.)
> lingered, being used by persons with axes to grind.
> Such was the case when Charles Darwin (not a scientist)
> produced Origin of the Species.
> the Favored Races in the Struggle for Life."
> from inferior ones.
> races.
> of the white race.
> "Mr. Darwin's Critics," said: "The answer is not far
> to seek. The lowest savages are as devoid of any such
> conception as the brutes themselves. What sort of
> conceptions of space and time, of form and number can
> be possessed by a savage who has not got so far as to
> be able to count beyond five or six?"
> fired by "race contamination" of his "superior race."
> and mentally ill.
> evolution. All this is history.
> the form of the Ku Klux Klan, etc.
> Civic Biology," was used to defend him. It flat out
> stated that Caucasians were "the highest type of all"
> races.
> formed to claim blacks were not fully evolved, inferior
> types, incapable of development.
> incorrect and laughable, all based on Darwin's survival
> of the fittest philosophy.
> in the prestigious Creation Research Society, consisting
> of hundreds of scientists with advanced degrees who hold
> to the Creation account on scientific grounds as well as
> religious. LSI
> racism Darwin predicted that "the civilised races of
> man will...exterminate, and replace, the savage races
> throughout the world"
> by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost
> certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races
> throughout the world.
> Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt
> be exterminated.
> be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more
> civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian,
> and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now
> between the negro or Australian and the gorilla." (Darwin,
> Charles R. [English naturalist and founder of the modern
> theory of evolution], "The Descent of Man and Selection
> in Relation to Sex," [1871], John Murray: London, Second
> Edition, 1922, reprint, pp.241-242). [Top of page]
> been eliminated by the higher civilised races throughout
> the world"
> beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence.
> an endless number of the lower races will have been
> eliminated by the higher civilised races throughout
> the world." (Darwin, Charles R. [English naturalist
> and founder of the modern theory of evolution], "The
> Life of Charles Darwin", [1902], Senate: London, 1995,
> reprint, p.64). [Top of page]
> that the average negro is the equal, still less the
> superior, of the average white man"
> than some white men; but no rational man, cognisant
> of the facts, believes that the average negro is
> the equal, still less the superior, of the average
> white man.
> when all his disabilities are removed, and our
> prognathous relative has a fair field and no favour,
> as well as no oppressor, he will be able to compete
> successfully with his bigger-brained and smallerjawed
> rival, in a contest which is to be carried on by
> thoughts and not by bites.
> will assuredly not be within the reach of our dusky
> cousins, though it is by no means necessary that they
> should be restricted to the lowest." (Huxley, Thomas
> Henry [Anatomist, Dean of the Royal College of Science,
> and "Darwin's Bulldog"], "Emancipation-Black and White,"
> in Rhys E., ed., "Lectures and Lay Sermons," [1871],
> Everyman's Library, J.M. Dent & Co: London, 1926,
> reprint, p.115). [Top of page]
> for eugenics Darwin warned against allowing "the weak
> members of civilised societies [to] propagate their
> kind"
> eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit
> a vigorous state of health.
> to check the process of elimination; we build asylums
> for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute
> poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill
> to save the life of every one to the last moment.
> preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution
> would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the
> weak members of civilised societies propagate their
> kind.
> animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious
> to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want
> of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the
> degeneration of a domestic race;
> but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly
> any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals
> to breed." (Darwin, Charles R. [English naturalist
> and founder of the modern theory of evolution], "The
> Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex," [1871],
> John Murray: London, Second Edition, 1922, reprint,
> pp.205-206) [Top of page]
> extermination camps of Nazi Europe"
> Germany. ...
> of Nazism"
> evolutionary garden. The theories of the Great Bearded
> One have been hijacked by cranks, politicians, social
> reformers-and scientists-to support racist and bigoted
> views.
> of the eugenics movement-Darwin's cousin, Francis
> Galton-to the extermination camps of Nazi Europe."
> (Brookes, Martin.,"Ripe old age," Review of "Of Flies,
> Mice and Men," by Francois Jacob, Harvard University
> Press, 1999, New Scientist, Vol. 161, No. 2171, 30
> January 1998, p41, New Scientist, Vol. 161, No. 2171,
> 30 January 1998, p41). [Top of page]
> influential than Darwin in convincing the world of
> the truth of evolution. ...
> was, ultimately, in another, tragic direction-national
> socialism.
> unflinching devotion to a "just" state;
> ruled human civilization and nature alike, conferring
> upon favored races the right to dominate others; the
> irrational mysticism that had always stood in strange
> communion with his brave words about objective science-all
> contributed to the rise of Nazism.
> it included a wing of pacifists and leftists, made a
> comfortable transition to active support for Hitler."
> (Gould, Stephen J. [Professor of Zoology and Geology,
> Harvard University], "Ontogeny and Phylogeny," Belknap
> Press: Cambridge MA, 1977, pp.77-78). [Top of page]
> have a libr'y out here. I actually got into my
> Flintstone mobile (ya know, the car with rocks for wheels
> and a hole in the bottom so you can put your feet through)
> and went to the local libr'y and chekd me out sum reel
> gud books!
> applied the evolutionary ideas of the survival of the
> fittest in a distorted way to justify death camps" from
> Evolution The Great Debate by Blackmore and Page (page 156)
> website, I would be proud to have this placed there.
> me back. If you do I will just ignore it. I have better
> more productive things to do with my time.
> Bye!
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