Re: Social Darwinism; was: So Long Judge Moore, We'll Miss You

ambrose searle wrote:
> Dick C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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>>ambrose searle wrote in talk.origins
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>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (maff) wrote in message news:
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>>>>But Bible Belt fundamentalists, Confederates and the Klan didn't
>>>>beleive in Darwin or evolution. THey wre murdering and torturing
>>>>people even before Darwin.
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>>>So what? How does that change the fact that Darwin was also a racist?
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>>How racist was he, especially when compared to others of his society?
>>Why condemn someone's thinking when it reflected the then current societal
>>attidudes?
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> His racism wasn't simply a matter of imbibing current political
> values... it was, according to him, A BYPRODUCT OF HIS SCIENTIFIC
> THEORY.

Except that he described the "savages" as commonly exhibiting "a 
vigorous state of health". And you failed bitterly to show that he 
approved of philosophical conclusions drawn from this notion.