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1. almost 13 years ago on Doonesbury

   I find it quite humorous that you would call evolution “indisputable fact.” I believe that simply reading the posts about this will show that evolution is most definitely disputed. As for your statement about design, the reality is that logic tells us that the only possible explanation is design. With the complexity of the world that we live in, there is no way that it occurred randomly.

2. almost 13 years ago on Doonesbury

   The Catholic Church also doesn’t believe that Jesus Christ is the only way of salvation, like the Bible says. So I wouldn’t point to them as a model of a Bible-believing Christian’s perspective on origins.

3. almost 13 years ago on Doonesbury

   I wonder how many of you who have commented on this have actually read Darwin’s “Origin of Species” and “Descent of Man”. I have. Let me put one of his quotes here, specifically dealing with the post that denied that Darwin believed that inferior races existed.

   “At some future period…the civilized races of men will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races….The break [between the highest and lowest “human” species] will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between men in a more civilized state…than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla”

   Secondly, I’d like to point out what a literal belief in Darwin’s theory means. A woman named Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood was one of those people who put to action Darwin’s writings. She wrote in one of her books,

   “Our failure to segregate morons [the lowest “class” of human beings] who are increasing and multiplying…demonstrates our foolhardy and extravagant sentimentalism… [Philanthropists] encourage the healthier and more normal sections of the world to shoulder the burden of unthinking and indiscriminate fecundity of others; which brings with it…a dead weight of human waste. Instead of decreasing and aiming to eliminate the stocks that are most detrimental to the future of the race and the world, it tends to render them to a menacing degree dominant…We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all"

   And speaking of Margaret Sanger, she got racism from Darwin as well.

   “We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro

   population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."

   My recommendation to you is to actually study what Darwin said in his books. Study what he actually believed. Then come back and argue knowledgeably.