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« on: March 31, 2008, 12:46:25 PM »

Um, actually, the main point of the film is to assert that evolutionary theory is what motivated the holocaust.  Whatever the hell 'neo-darwinism' means.

You'll note, if you're interested in the movie, that the interviews with prominent credible scientists were procured under false pretenses for another, fake film.

The theory of Evolution has contributed to numerous social ills and ideologies that use the theory to motivate and justify their racial hatred.  Just because a theory can be used for evil does not make it false, but it does mean that the theory should be handled with some care.

I think the scientific consensus is that life has evolved on this planet over millions of years, and this must be respected and taught where appropriate.  However, one should not interpret the theory of Evolution to mean that there was no intelligent hand guiding the process or beginning it in the first place.

Our country was founded on the principle that All men were created equal.  I fail to understand why so many liberal intellectuals are so desperate to prove this concept wrong and eliminate it from the public discourse.  An untempered understanding of Evolution would suggest - by the very nature of the theory - that men are inherently unequal, that the fittest members of the species reproduce and pass on their genetic lineage.

Evolution is good science.  Evolution is really, really, really, really, really, really bad social theory.
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