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handofdave Sep 13, 2008 04:06:57
Replying to shanshee_allures

Darwin was a creationist himself. He just came to the (very astute) observation that organisms undergo mutations.

It's the fundamentalist fools who've decided that that perfectly reasonable and measurable truth somehow blasphemes 'the book'...

All idiocy as it manifests in the religious sphere is based in the obstinate hatred of change. And the change inherent in the scientific method is interpreted, by that criteria, as heresy.

S stray
stray Sep 13, 2008 05:27:27
Replying to handofdave

Spot on, and most scientists and religious bods agree. You said it all a lot more succinctly than I did.

S shanshee_allures
shanshee_allures Sep 15, 2008 14:11:21
Replying to handofdave

handofdave wrote:
Darwin was a creationist himself. He just came to the (very astute) observation that organisms undergo mutations.
I don't think he ever was a creationist insofar as his science or even private life goes (i.e. it never was a springboard for any of his theorizing). He was born into a religious background (not his choice of course) but although he denounced that he sort of remained 'agnostic'.

This site gives some lovely qoutes.

http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/darwin.htm

**It appears to me (whether rightly or wrongly) that direct arguments against christianity and theism produce hardly any effect on the public; and freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science**

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