Re: Racism is Racism: Evolution is NOT

Keith Plummer (keithp@starnetinc.com)
Thu, 12 Jun 1997 11:30:58 -0500

Russell Stewart wrote:
>
> At 11:20 PM 6/11/97 -0600, you wrote:
> > Someone:
> >
> >> >In the sense
> >> >that Darwinism as a worldview may prove racism *irrational* but cannot
> >> >prove it *immoral*, Darwinism fosters racism.
> >
> > Russel S.:
> >> Modern particle physics cannot prove murder immoral. Does that mean
> >> that my field of study fosters murder?
> >
> > Now, Russell, I know that you HEPcats are know for your little
> >quarks, but I've not heard of particle physics being refered to as
> >a philosophical worldview before. :-)
>
> That's because it isn't -- just as evolution isn't. They're both
> scientific fields of study. It is the Creationists who are trying
> to shoehorn evolution into the "philosophical worldview" category.

It has never been MY claim that evolution is a philosophical
worldview. However, the metaphysical materialism assumed by Darwinists
does fall into the cateogry of philosophical worldview. Are you
suggesting that science can be performed in an
epistemological/philosophical vacuum?