This is becoming a problem. Dave Scot, a Friend of Bill Dembski, continues to post rational arguments. We fear that his mental health has become permanently balanced, and we continue to fear for his survival at Uncommon Descent. (Click link for discussion, if you dare.)
There are people who believe that because Darwin provided a theoretical basis that humans and animals have a common ancestor it becomes a rationale for treating humans more like animals. Thus we get things like Nazi Germany and the holocaust.
I suppose that’s one way of looking at it.
Another equally valid way of looking at it is that common ancestry becomes a rationale for treating animals more like humans. Thus we get things like People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
It’s all a matter of how you choose to look at it. It’s really more a reflection on your own soul which way you choose to see it.
Good people do good things. Evil people do evil things. Knowledge (like Darwinian evolution and the recipe for dynamite) is inanimate and can be employed by good people for good things and evil people for evil things.
Woah. It’s like the guy had a revelation or something.
Glad I brought my umbrella to the office today, because it looks like the sky may be falling.
Recall that it was also DaveScot who some time ago flatly asserted that anyone who didn’t accept an old earth didn’t know what they were talking about, or words to that effect.
The comments are fascinating, too.
I think he’s seriously irked that the True Christians(TM) are getting way too religious there.
It’s continuing today – BarryA has posted an extensive apologetic and has accused DaveScot of solipsism. I imagine there’s a lot of behind-the-scenes damage limitation in their house today – if one of the prominent card-carrying non-Christians in the ID movement splits off from UD over religious differences, it would be quite damaging, no?
Well, I can dream.