Re: [asa] Darwin's anti-slavery Sacred Cause

Someone, alert James Watson. Or assorted eugenics advocates, past and
present.

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Jack Haas <haas.john@comcast.net> wrote:

> This carefully researched work takes a new twist on Darwin. It is one
> book worth
> reading out of the torrent that is appearing.
> JWH
> ___________________________________________________________________________
> Some Christians Protest Darwin's Birthday. Is Their Antagonism Misplaced?
>
> Not everyone is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's
> birth. Some are protesting. A Christian ministry called Answers in Genesis
> is holding anti-Darwin conferences on the East and West coasts this month,
> aimed at helping Americans "understand that Darwinian evolution is wrong and
> that it has undermined the Christian faith and has fueled social ills like
> racism and abortion." Faith-based opposition to Darwin is hardly consigned
> to the religious fringe. A recent Pew survey found that fewer than 10
> percent of evangelical Christians believe life evolved through natural
> selection. Secular Americans were the only respondents who voiced majority
> support for the theory.
>
> A new book, *Darwin's Sacred Cause**,* argues that Christian antagonism
> toward Darwin is misplaced. Acclaimed Darwin biographers Adrian Desmond and
> James Moore portray a Christian Darwin who was driven by his faith-based
> opposition to slavery to prove the common origin of the human race. A theory
> of common human decency, Darwin believed, would undermine a key precept of
> the slave trade: that blacks comprise an inferior race separate from
> whites.... (Interview with Moore)
> *
> US News & World Report*
> Full Story at
> <http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2009/02/13/charles-darwin-christian.html><http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2009/02/13/charles-darwin-christian.html>
>
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