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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
i honor the man for his ideas.
it's all we have left of him!
Darwin singlehandedly demolished (although many do not want to admit it) the idea that a persoonal god has a hand in the details of day to day existance.
for that I am grateful.
to lump him in with the virulent hate-filled racists is a diservice to the man.
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so you will clutch your idealism in the face of hero-worship?
its as I told you, I can accept history warts an all... Haile Selassie was one of the champions of equality and smashing racism, and yet he shit on a
solid gold toilet while millions of Ethiopians suffered famine and absolute poverty, and yet I can equally venerate HIM while accepting his flaws openly and honestly..
in regards to Darwin I feel the same way.. and by the way, Darwin himself did not directly smash the concept of theology, people used his ideas for that later..