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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
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 Posted - 03/28/2007 : 23:17:24 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hawks
They're at it again.
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The field of medical genetics is still recovering from eugenics, which was Darwin's only gift to medicine.
What hypocrisy - The Eugenics Act (forced sterilization of allegedly mentally handicapped people) in the Province of Alberta was enacted by the Fundamentalists of the Social Credit party in the 1930s and wasn't repealled until the Socreds were defeated by the secularist Progressive Conservatives in 1971. When Premier Peter Lougheed spoke at the opening of Tyrrell Museum of Paleontogy in Drumheller, he hinted that it would never have been built if he had defeated the Socreds because of their denial of evolution. |
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History is made by stupid people - The Arrogant Worms
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"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 03/28/2007 : 23:54:44 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Hawks
They're at it again.
And if you need an antidote after reading that, PZ Myers has already dealt with that bit of ignorance.
I thought one poster in particular, going by the handle "Art," made a very astute comment:
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Just a reminder - as a way to avoid the implications of breeding for evolutionary mechanisms, ID proponents tend to liken "artificial selection" to intelligent design. This is what they resort to when ducking matters such as the evolution of maize (macroevolution at its core). Since eugenics is but artificial selection applied to humans, this means that, at its core, eugenics is Intelligent Design. Not Darwinian evolution (whatever that is) but Intelligent Design.
Keep reminding our friends at the DI of this.
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| Edited by - H. Humbert on 03/29/2007 01:31:45 |
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Hawks
SFN Regular
Canada
1383 Posts |
Posted - 03/29/2007 : 01:30:29 [Permalink]
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Very good, HH.
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