Re: The man with the rhesus monkey brain (was Re: Jim's poor view of the Neanderthal)

Jim Bell (70672.1241@compuserve.com)
16 Nov 96 10:53:07 EST

Steve Clark attempts a comeback with:

<<Come on Jim, you, Hitler, and Randy may believe this, but it is NOT a
necessary conclusion from evolution science as evidenced by the large number
of evolutionary creationists, and even most secular evolutionists who do not
believe that Hitler's belief in racial superiority is a logical consequence
of evolution science. You ignored the rest of my argument in making your
narrow point. >>

But it was only your narrow, and in my view illogical, point I was addressing.
You equated Hitler's "abuse" of evolutionism with, e.g., white supremecist's
"abuse" of Christianity.

I pointed out the flaw: Hitler did not "abuse" his paradigm. There is no way
to call him to account based upon evolutionism alone. That's why I asked you
to try to do it. You couldn't, and that proves the point.

Sure, there are moral evolutionists. But they attain their morality from a
moral sphere, e.g. Christianity. Evolutionism has no moral sphere. It
therefore cannot have been "abused" (a moral term which you employed) by
Hitler.

Simple point.

Jim