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

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Jack Haas <haas.john@comcast.net> wrote:
> 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>
> _____________________________________________________________________________

Whether or not he was strongly motivated for good, I am impressed that
Darwin was appropriately cautious (admirably so for his time) about
extrapolating from "what is" to "what should be".

Doug

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Received on Sat Feb 14 11:10:45 2009