Re: ICR and its slurs

Jim Bell (70672.1241@CompuServe.COM)
22 May 97 16:13:17 EDT

Russell Stewart writes:

<<Yes, but you've got your causality mixed up. Let me ask you this: would
Hitler have been any less of a murderous tyrant if there had been no such
thing as a theory of evolution?>>

It's not a question of causality. It's a question of justification (as you
should have noted from Rich's wording, "which he justified..."). Just to
clarify the question starkly, try this: Please justify your characterization
of Hitler as a "murderous tyrant," without any appeal to a transcendent moral
system.

The main point remains: evolutionism can be a powerful, and logically
compelling, justification for racism and genocide. It is not subject to moral
correction, as, e.g., Christianity is. It can only borrow moral capital. It
should acknowledge the debt.

Jim