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#69987
Tiny Bulcher
So, how were Nazi eugenics different from pig-breeding*, which of course never happened before Darwin?
(*technically, I mean, not morally)
8/29/2006 11:14:29 AM
#70000
Redhunter
Laugh-out-loud-stupidity.
Darwin is as responsible for the Holocaust as the Chinese (inventors of gunpowder) were responsible for the deaths of the defenders of the Alamo.
DJK, you are a stupid, stupid man. Have you decided that you can create '6 degrees of Charles Darwin' and connect him to anybody? You are truly a pathetic little worm.
8/29/2006 11:47:53 AM
#70007
themann1086
Copernicus is responsible for slavery!
Coming next week, Calculus and World War I
8/29/2006 12:03:05 PM
#70019
g-21-lto
I predict that public school teachers will be cleaning up the mess left behind in the minds of schoolchildren everywhere by Darwin's Deadly Legacy for years to come. :(
8/29/2006 12:27:52 PM
#70031
Brain_In_A_Jar
I get the feeling that the lack of evolutionary theory would not have significantly hindered Hitler in his obsessive quest to rid the earth of his chosen hate groups. He'd just have fallen back on his other excuses (They killed Christ, they secretly run the economy, they eat babies, they have big noses and cooties, etc etc)
8/29/2006 12:46:22 PM
#70038
Crosis
To put it simply, you are about as far wrong as can be.
8/29/2006 1:01:27 PM
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8/29/2006 1:09:08 PM
#70048
Data
A christian creationist at that.
8/29/2006 1:44:05 PM
#70049
el nico
GODWIN Ftw!!!! seriously, wouldn't anyone with a firm understanding of evolution and genetics see that there is no scientific basis for race and that those of mixed race might be \"superior\" in that they are less susceptible to genetic disorders that plague pure breeds?
8/29/2006 1:46:40 PM
#70051
David D.G.
The only way Darwin could have been in any way responsible for Hitler was if he had either raised him or been one of his ancestors. As far as I know, neither was the case. This show's entire \"reaoning\" is flawed from the foundation up, and it also resorted to fraud against at least one of its guests to garner \"support\" for its position, so it deserves to be presented as nothing more serious than an MST3K flick.
Unfortunately, however, I agree with g-21-lto that teachers will probably have to be doing damage control for quite some time on account of this show -- as if they didn't have enough trouble already.
~David D.G.
8/29/2006 2:10:28 PM
#70060
Nic
So it wasn't that Hitler was evil and berserk that was the problem- it was that he believed in evolution?
Riiight.
8/29/2006 2:32:05 PM
#70067
McCulloch
This type of reasoning has a name.
Argumentum ad NaziumExample: The Nazis favored eugenics.
Therefore, eugenics is wrong.
Counter-Example: Hitler was a vegetarian.
Therefore, vegetarianism is wrong.
Playing the Hitler Card demonizes opponents in debate by associating them with evil, and almost always derails the discussion. People naturally resent being associated with Nazism, and are usually angered. In this way, playing the Hitler Card can be an effective distraction in a debate, causing the opponent to lose track of the argument. However, when people become convinced by guilt by association arguments that their political opponents are not just mistaken, but are as evil as Nazis, reasoned debate can give way to violence. So, playing the Hitler Card is more than just a dirty trick in debate, it is often \"fighting words\".
8/29/2006 2:48:39 PM
#70081
Randola
More like: \"No Xianity, no holocaust\".
8/29/2006 3:21:27 PM
#70096
Matilde
That´s why some Christian said that Hitler was right, because he was punishing the deicides.
8/29/2006 3:52:01 PM
#70114
E.H.
From that same site:
“The time has come,” Dr. Kennedy said, “to recognize that evolution is a bad idea and should be, frankly, discarded into the dustbin of history.”
So all the creationist yahoos may rejoice. O' brave new world...
8/29/2006 5:03:42 PM
#70117
Libkitten
Natural evolution and forced interbreeding alongside mass genocide
are. not. the. same.
8/29/2006 5:09:44 PM
#70118
DoctorX
Tactical Nuclear Goodwin
8/29/2006 5:13:54 PM
#70121
CousinTed
Actually the thing most responsible for the Holocaust, was WWI. Seriously, if Germany hadn't been defeated during WWI there wouldn't have been an opportunity for Hitler to rise to power.
Thus, I say we should blame Archeduke Franz Ferdinand for the Holocaust. If he hadn't died horribly at the hands of assasins there would never have been a WWI and Hitler would never have risen to power!
8/29/2006 5:31:16 PM
#70133
David D.G.
I'm with DoctorX on this one: Tactical Nuclear Godwin Award seems appropriate here.
~David D.G.
8/29/2006 6:08:33 PM
#70147
Papabear
By this \"logic\" the person who discovered fire is as evil as Hitler. I mean, it's a very useful thing, which has killed millions over the years when misused or uncontrolled. Same with knives, guns, alcohol, cars, etc.. Just because something has bad effects when misused doesn't mean it's a bad idea.
Also, just because some fact can be misused (and what fact can't be?) does not make it less true.
8/29/2006 6:24:41 PM
#70148
Berny
From what deepest, darkest recess of your colon did you pull this diseased gem of stupidity?
Hitler firmly believed he was doing the work of the Christian God by eliminating the mongrel races.
You, sir, are an idiot.
8/29/2006 6:25:22 PM
#70182
AlexLoup
Did this man read Mein Kampf
8/29/2006 7:33:55 PM
#70188
Napoleon the Clown
D for dickwad?
Without Christianity, no Hitler.
8/29/2006 7:54:05 PM
#70203
MAGPie
\"No Darwin, No Hitler,\" eh?
How about \"No Christianity, No Crusades\"...
8/29/2006 8:29:14 PM
#70487
Chan
CousinTed:
While we're at it, let's blame Napoleon for smashing the Holy Roman Empire and giving rise to the proto-German state of Prussia from its ashes.
Or Otto I the Great, who many people credit with the founding of the HRE.
On a note related to the Whoor of Babble-on: A friend of mine once claimed that the HRE threw Christians to the lions. Apparently he was confusing Otto I's Empire with Augustus Caesar's. This led on to a conversation in which he smeared the Roman Catholic Church with almost everything but the blood libel.
Oy, I say. Oy, oy, oy.
8/30/2006 8:22:50 PM
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