Re: ICR and its slurs

Russell Stewart (diamond@rt66.com)
Wed, 21 May 1997 12:11:50 -0600

> First, I doubt that anyone at ICR would dispute that "sin" is the
>root of all evil. Exposing this point as a major blow to their claim must,
>therefore, miss the point somehow. The more specific question is how is
>that "sin" expressed? Would we say in principle, for example, that the
>breakdown in a marriage rests MORE on sexual infidelity (a sin) or cheating
>on taxes (also a sin). I don't think so. Although sin might be behind it
>all, it still seems quite legitimate to identify some more specific
>"culprit" as contributing more prominently to the outcome. Maybe the
>terminology and emphasis of the ICR are misleading, but I don't know why a
>more moderate interpretation can't be given: "sin is the underlying root,
>but evolution is a main trunk that has granted justification for racism."

But it's not. That was the whole point of the last few posts. Evolution has
not "granted justification for racism", at least not any more than has
Christianity. There have been some people who have twisted evolutionary theory
to support their preexisting racist beliefs, but would they be any less likely
to hold those beliefs if there was no evolutionary theory? I don't think so.
If anything (as others have pointed out), modern evolutionary theory does more
to counter racism than support it. The whole concept of "race" is turning out
to be bogus, thanks to scientific investigation of the facts.

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