Re: [asa] More on the Darwin-Hitler link

On 8/23/06, Carol or John Burgeson <burgytwo@juno.com> wrote:
>
> This piece of nonsensical email was rec'd today:
>
> Burgy
>
> Date: August 22, 2006
> From: Coral Ridge Ministries
> By: John Aman
>
> Coral Ridge Ministries Answers Anti-Defamation League Blast Against New
> Darwin-Hitler TV Special

Coral Ridge was responding only partially to the following. Note again
Francis Collins' quote inter alia.

New York, NY, August 22, 2006 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today
blasted a television documentary produced by Christian broadcaster Dr. D.
James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries that attempts to link Charles
Darwin's theory of evolution to Adolf Hitler and the atrocities of the
Holocaust. ADL also denounced Coral Ridge Ministries for misleading Dr.
Francis Collins, the director of the National Human Genome Research
Institute for the NIH, and wrongfully using him as part of its twisted
documentary, "Darwin's Deadly Legacy."

After being contacted by the ADL about his name being used to promote
Kennedy's project, Dr. Collins said he is "absolutely appalled by what Coral
Ridge Ministries is doing. I had NO knowledge that Coral Ridge
Ministries was planning a TV special on Darwin and Hitler, and I find the
thesis of Dr. Kennedy's program utterly misguided and inflammatory," he told
ADL.

ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman said in a statement:"This is an
outrageous and shoddy attempt by D. James Kennedy to trivialize the horrors
of the Holocaust. Hitler did not need Darwin to devise his heinous plan to
exterminate the Jewish people. Trivializing the Holocaust comes from either
ignorance at best or, at worst, a mendacious attempt to score political
points in the culture war on the backs of six million Jewish victims and
others who died at the hands of the Nazis.

"It must be remembered that D. James Kennedy is a leader among the distinct
group of 'Christian Supremacists' who seek to "reclaim America for Christ"
and turn the U.S. into a Christian nation guided by their strange notions of
biblical law."

The documentary is scheduled to air this weekend along with the publication
of an accompanying book "Evolution's Fatal Fruit: How Darwin's Tree of Life
Brought Death to Millions."

A Coral Ridge Ministries press release promoting the documentary says the
program "features 14 scholars, scientists, and authors who outline the grim
consequences of Darwin's theory of evolution and show how his theory fueled
Hitler's ovens."

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Received on Wed Aug 23 19:25:41 2006