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Originally Posted by prisonchaplain
I just watched it about a week ago. Of course it's propaganda...but very effective and persuasive. Two particularly interesting aspects--Planned Parenthood was founded on the principle of Eugenics...wipe out a large segment of minority and poor babies. Also, the link between Darwinism and that deplorable science is too strong to ignore.
The other interesting clip was the National Science Foundation representative being asked about the Smithsonian scientist who was railroaded out, and all she can think of is, "You Intelligent Design folk sure are getting a lot of mileage out of that!" Nevermind that a man's career was sabatoged, because Darwinism isn't about the individual, is it? Eugenics may be descredited as a scientific system, but the remnants of group-think and survival of the fittest remain. Excellent movie.
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In Richard Dawkin's "The God Delusion" Dawkins continually discusses the issues of religion and suffering, and that religion has caused many wars and suffering thourghout the last several thousand years. To which most of us would agree. However, he offers science as an answer to the suffering of mankind.
Apparently he either refuses to recognize, or is historically ignorant of science's role in many attrocities over the last several hundred years: eugenics of course is one, practiced by National Socialists in Germnay. But the Soviets, Japanese, Maoists, and yes even Western democracies have used scientific notions to experiment on their populations causing quite a bit of harm and grief.
So, Dawkins does share some realities of religion, but refuses to be honest about science.
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