Monday, February 06, 2006
A Kettle By Any Other Color
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Even more so is the case of eugenics, where a search comes up with numerous references, number one of which includes:
Bruce Chapman himself is posting at the Discovery Institute's blog, Evolution News & Views, humping an article in the Wall Street Journal about the Ota Benga story that he says is:
First of all, go to the AMNH site and search on Ota Benga and you will see that the Museum aired a documentary about Ota Benga from 2002 that "presents a shocking cautionary tale about scientific racism in turn-of-the-century America" and has some other information on this unfortunate but obscure event.. . . embarrassing history you will not see acknowledged at the AMNH's self-congratulatory Darwin retrospective -- or anywhere else that Darwinists are in charge.
Darwinism helped perpetuate and justify racism, as the Ota Benga story makes clear. It also produced the eugenics movement, where Darwinists (including, please note, the American Museum of Natural History) were the leaders.
Even more so is the case of eugenics, where a search comes up with numerous references, number one of which includes:
Eugenicists at universities and other institutions across the nation, including some at this Museum, validated their efforts through a misguided use of basic genetics.Scientists are not alone in having "embarrassing history" about perpetuating and justifying such ill-use of others, as any history of anti-Semitism, racism and slavery in America and around the world will attest.
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Creationists have no moral high ground beneath their feet here but they will claim it anyway because they have nothing better than dissembling and logical fallacies.
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Gould dealt with these issues honestly over twenty years ago, pointing out that science is conducted in a social context. It was that context - particularly the attitudes about race and culture - that gave rise to the 'scientific' outrages that the Discovery hacks rail against.
The IDist agenda is to divorce the issues from the social milieu and focus exclusively on the science. It's disgusting, like pretty much everything those people say.
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The IDist agenda is to divorce the issues from the social milieu and focus exclusively on the science. It's disgusting, like pretty much everything those people say.
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