Comments on: On Darwin, On Darwin’s Day http://atheists.org/blog/2009/02/11/on-darwin-on-darwin-s-day A Blog of Atheist Thought Sat, 20 Mar 2010 05:25:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: dw http://atheists.org/blog/2009/02/11/on-darwin-on-darwin-s-day/comment-page-1#comment-30265 dw Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-30265 <b>On February 12th 200 years ago a great man was born. In celebration I ask everyone to think: Is it so bad to be the fifth ape? Gorillas, chimpanzee, orangutans, gibbons, humans. <br /> <br /> It is a much more wondrous trip we have made than that described by myth where you take a piece of clay and add water and abracadabra, you have a human being. The struggle to this magnificent point through millions of years of minute changes is indeed something to behold. <br /> <br /> We are indeed made from the materials produced by stars. We are like the Universe come alive in an attempt to understand itself. Nothing can be as wondrous as that.</b> <br /> On February 12th 200 years ago a great man was born. In celebration I ask everyone to think: Is it so bad to be the fifth ape? Gorillas, chimpanzee, orangutans, gibbons, humans.

It is a much more wondrous trip we have made than that described by myth where you take a piece of clay and add water and abracadabra, you have a human being. The struggle to this magnificent point through millions of years of minute changes is indeed something to behold.

We are indeed made from the materials produced by stars. We are like the Universe come alive in an attempt to understand itself. Nothing can be as wondrous as that.

]]> By: NotSoFast http://atheists.org/blog/2009/02/11/on-darwin-on-darwin-s-day/comment-page-1#comment-30285 NotSoFast Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-30285 The Alan colmes Show didn't put the debate on the website. He went for 37 minutes telling us it was coming up -- and then the show ended.<br /> <br /> <br /> The Alan colmes Show didn’t put the debate on the website. He went for 37 minutes telling us it was coming up — and then the show ended.

]]> By: dw http://atheists.org/blog/2009/02/11/on-darwin-on-darwin-s-day/comment-page-1#comment-30286 dw Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-30286 The Poll looks like the Christian army has been alerted. The poll is therefore useless.<br /> The Poll looks like the Christian army has been alerted. The poll is therefore useless.

]]> By: ga4ry http://atheists.org/blog/2009/02/11/on-darwin-on-darwin-s-day/comment-page-1#comment-30287 ga4ry Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-30287 you see phredumdum, the problem with your post is that Lincoln was real and his quote documented, jebus was not, so his quote is irrelevant you see phredumdum, the problem with your post is that Lincoln was real and his quote documented, jebus was not, so his quote is irrelevant

]]> By: Asemodeus http://atheists.org/blog/2009/02/11/on-darwin-on-darwin-s-day/comment-page-1#comment-30295 Asemodeus Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-30295 "Creationists use computers, don't they?"<br /> <br /> This has always confused me from the start. How they actually managed to figure out how to use a keyboard, yet alone a mouse is just staggering! <br /> <br /> And some of them actually know how to use webcams! <br /> <br /> “Creationists use computers, don’t they?”

This has always confused me from the start. How they actually managed to figure out how to use a keyboard, yet alone a mouse is just staggering!

And some of them actually know how to use webcams!

]]> By: rainbows4dinosaurs http://atheists.org/blog/2009/02/11/on-darwin-on-darwin-s-day/comment-page-1#comment-30296 rainbows4dinosaurs Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-30296 Phreedm... another Huffington link!?!? Have you been converted?<br /> <br /> ;)<br /> <br /> <br /> Phreedm… another Huffington link!?!? Have you been converted?

;)

]]> By: DD Dropout http://atheists.org/blog/2009/02/11/on-darwin-on-darwin-s-day/comment-page-1#comment-30304 DD Dropout Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-30304 At the Nuremberg trials, one of the defences presented was that instances of Eugenics in North America were the models they based their elimination programs on.<br /> <br /> The Eugenics Board of North Carolina sterilized ~7600 people between 1927 and 1977 in order to remove their genes from the gene pool.<br /> <br /> Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt amongst many other famous individuals were at one point supporters of Eugenics.<br /> <br /> Just because Galton based his Eugenics on his reading of the <i>Origin of Species</i> does not mean Darwin was wrong about Evolution. A scientific explanation can be used for good or evil. Creationists use computers, don't they?<br /> <br /> I find the lying for Jesus that these creationists seem to delight in to be the most despicable thing about them. How phreedm has the gall to repeat simple minded falsehoods he has seen refuted over and over, I cannot understand.<br /> <br /> What condescension they show to their audience when they assume that discrediting Darwin diminishes his theory.<br /> <br /> How long before we hear from him that all the evidence gathered for evolution over the past 150 years must be set aside because someone claims that someone heard Darwin become born again on his death bed?<br /> <br /> Darwin is neither a god or a prophet. The trust we have that evolution is the best explanation for the diversity of life is not shaken by someone throwing mud at him.<br /> <br /> <br /> At the Nuremberg trials, one of the defences presented was that instances of Eugenics in North America were the models they based their elimination programs on.

The Eugenics Board of North Carolina sterilized ~7600 people between 1927 and 1977 in order to remove their genes from the gene pool.

Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt amongst many other famous individuals were at one point supporters of Eugenics.

Just because Galton based his Eugenics on his reading of the Origin of Species does not mean Darwin was wrong about Evolution. A scientific explanation can be used for good or evil. Creationists use computers, don’t they?

I find the lying for Jesus that these creationists seem to delight in to be the most despicable thing about them. How phreedm has the gall to repeat simple minded falsehoods he has seen refuted over and over, I cannot understand.

What condescension they show to their audience when they assume that discrediting Darwin diminishes his theory.

How long before we hear from him that all the evidence gathered for evolution over the past 150 years must be set aside because someone claims that someone heard Darwin become born again on his death bed?

Darwin is neither a god or a prophet. The trust we have that evolution is the best explanation for the diversity of life is not shaken by someone throwing mud at him.

]]> By: dfledermaus http://atheists.org/blog/2009/02/11/on-darwin-on-darwin-s-day/comment-page-1#comment-30386 dfledermaus Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-30386 The ideas behind eugenics are as old as history and most ancient cultures practised it by e3xposing unwanted or imperfect infants. Plato proposed a scheme for selecting the characteristics of the people who would be allowed to reproduce in his ideal "Republic" and the Spartans practised it in an organized (and religiously sanctified) manner to produce their warrior elite. In fact it was the Spartans who inspired Hitler's eugenics program and not Darwin. Adolf Hitler considered Sparta to be the first "Völkisch State," and much like Ernst Haeckel before him, praised Sparta due to its primitive form of eugenics practice of selective infanticide policy which was applied on deformed children though the Nazis believed the children were killed outright and not exposed. The ideas behind eugenics are as old as history and most ancient cultures practised it by e3xposing unwanted or imperfect infants. Plato proposed a scheme for selecting the characteristics of the people who would be allowed to reproduce in his ideal “Republic” and the Spartans practised it in an organized (and religiously sanctified) manner to produce their warrior elite. In fact it was the Spartans who inspired Hitler’s eugenics program and not Darwin. Adolf Hitler considered Sparta to be the first “Völkisch State,” and much like Ernst Haeckel before him, praised Sparta due to its primitive form of eugenics practice of selective infanticide policy which was applied on deformed children though the Nazis believed the children were killed outright and not exposed.

]]> By: godless sodomite http://atheists.org/blog/2009/02/11/on-darwin-on-darwin-s-day/comment-page-1#comment-84789 godless sodomite Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-84789 <blockquote>Why do so many atheists celebrate or at least make such a fuss about Darwin or Darwin's b-day?</blockquote> <br /> <br /> Speaking for myself, I celebrate Darwin not just on this day but throughout the year because I have a keen interest in evolution and becasue his big idea finally made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. Todays Darwin Day was also his 200th birthday so it was a milestone that received more attention than most Darwin Days usually do. Also, November will mark 150 years since "Origin of Species" was published so 2009 is a big year for Darwin on two accounts.

Why do so many atheists celebrate or at least make such a fuss about Darwin or Darwin’s b-day?

Speaking for myself, I celebrate Darwin not just on this day but throughout the year because I have a keen interest in evolution and becasue his big idea finally made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. Todays Darwin Day was also his 200th birthday so it was a milestone that received more attention than most Darwin Days usually do. Also, November will mark 150 years since “Origin of Species” was published so 2009 is a big year for Darwin on two accounts.

]]> By: NotSoFast http://atheists.org/blog/2009/02/11/on-darwin-on-darwin-s-day/comment-page-1#comment-95429 NotSoFast Unknown, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-95429 My fellow apes -- my fellow transitional forms --<br /> <br /> <big><strong>HAPPY DARWIN DAY</strong></big><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> My fellow apes — my fellow transitional forms –

HAPPY DARWIN DAY

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