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Origin of Species To Be Given For Free, With FUD
PhrostyMcByte writes "November 24th will mark the 150th anniversary of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, the pivotal work that helped bring the theory of evolution through natural selection into popularity. Around this same time, Growing Pains star Kirk Cameron is spearheading a plan to pass out 50,000 free copies at universities around the country. The catch? Each copy will be altered to include creationist propaganda and FUD targeting evolution and Darwin himself."
Eugenics requires evolution. Evolution does not require eugenics.
Good point. Evolution certainly does not require eugenics. I argue still, though, that evolution will lead to eugenics. Perhaps not inevitably, but it seems that it an evolutionary worldview would certainly lend itself to the practice of eugenics. IMO, an evolutionary worldview does not logically lead to a practice of environmental preservation. I said that below though, so I guess I'm repeating myself. And writing my comment from the bottom up, ha. :)
I disagree. The idea that inferior genes will naturally die out does not logicically lead to we must kill everyone with inferior genes.
Fair enough.
If they really believed what they were saying, it seems more likely that they would let evolution run its course.
The same could be said about climate change/environmental activists. Humans are just another animal, we're no different from the rest of the animal kingdom except we're farther along teh evolutionary path... so what we are doing to the environment is completely natural and instinctive and we should just let us run our course, even if that leads to extinction. Or... should we intervene and save "ourselves"? Most people, at this point, seem to make an interesting break in their view of how the world works/runs and say that we do need to be responsible and not let ourselves run off and do whatever we want to the environment (as opposed to the rest of the ecosystem, where if something gets out of balance from an outside force, bad things happen). Hitler's reasoning seems to not be too far off from this line of reasoning - we should clean up the race before we get beyond hope (and I choose my race to be the best! ... heh).