Re: Expelled...not bad....anyone?

"Ken McElhaney"  wrote

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> The above statement that "Expelled" selectively quotes Charles Darwin
> to connect his ideas to eugenics and the Holocaust is not accurate.
> What is accurate is that the film presents the early twentieth century
> "science" of eugenics and Hitler's own warped beliefs which were
> seeded in Darwin's published works. As in Hitler used some of Darwin's
> theories and warped them into his own world view.

I - who haven't had  the chance to actually see the film - agree with
that. 
And Hitler wasn't the only one. IIRC there were something like 300,000 
legally sanctioned sterilisations of people with 'undesirable 
characteristics' in the US pre-war.

It's hard to see how it invalidates the Darwin's theory. But maybe that's 
not the point the unseen film is trying to make.

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> You're getting to the core of the film as none of the scientists could
> "disprove" Intelligent Design, they only wanted the idea quashed as it
> clashed with thier own views.

AIUI most real scientists - as opposed to people like me who hang about on

Usenet - object to intelligent line because of its methodology rather than

its conclusions.


-- 
SB