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Flame Wars & Offtopic / Re: the mystery of violence in st.louis
« on: September 14, 2017, 04:36:33 PM »
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@Lambchops
You may be unaware of the full title of Darwin's 1859 publication:
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection—or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Charles Darwin wrote in a letter:
"I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit.... The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world."
Thomas Huxley (aka "Darwin's Bulldog" and evolution promoter) wrote:
"No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man. And if this be true, it is simply incredible that, when all his disabilities are removed, and our prognathous relative has a fair field and no favour, as well as no oppressor, he will be able to compete successfully with his bigger-brained and smaller-jawed rival, in a contest which is to be carried out by thoughts and not by bites."
In his book "Descent of Man," Darwin talks about different races being different species (than humans), and refers to people like pygmies as "lower organisms" and certain people groups as "savage" and "low."
Evolution and racism go hand in hand.
The acceptance of Darwinism led to the eugenics movement in Germany that sought to eliminate all "impure" and "lower" (less evolved) races from contaminating the Aryan race and led to the slaughter of millions of people, not only Jews, but also many others including Christians who opposed the evils that were being carried out.
The Bible leaves no room for racism:
Acts 17:24-43 (NKJV):
24 “God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. 25 Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. 26 And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ 29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising. 30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”
32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, “We will hear you again on this matter.” 33 So Paul departed from among them. 34 However, some men joined him and believed, among them Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
All people in the world are descended from the first two people God made, Adam and Eve.
The concept of "race" isn't even in the Bible. People are people. Each one is loved by God and precious to Him.
The divisions and animosity that separate us today are our own doing as sinful people.
@Lambchops
You may be unaware of the full title of Darwin's 1859 publication:
The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection—or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Charles Darwin wrote in a letter:
"I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civilization than you seem inclined to admit.... The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world."
Thomas Huxley (aka "Darwin's Bulldog" and evolution promoter) wrote:
"No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average negro is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man. And if this be true, it is simply incredible that, when all his disabilities are removed, and our prognathous relative has a fair field and no favour, as well as no oppressor, he will be able to compete successfully with his bigger-brained and smaller-jawed rival, in a contest which is to be carried out by thoughts and not by bites."
In his book "Descent of Man," Darwin talks about different races being different species (than humans), and refers to people like pygmies as "lower organisms" and certain people groups as "savage" and "low."
Evolution and racism go hand in hand.
The acceptance of Darwinism led to the eugenics movement in Germany that sought to eliminate all "impure" and "lower" (less evolved) races from contaminating the Aryan race and led to the slaughter of millions of people, not only Jews, but also many others including Christians who opposed the evils that were being carried out.
The Bible leaves no room for racism:
Acts 17:24-43 (NKJV):
24 “God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands. 25 Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. 26 And He has made from one blood every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’ 29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising. 30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”
32 And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked, while others said, “We will hear you again on this matter.” 33 So Paul departed from among them. 34 However, some men joined him and believed, among them Dionysius the Areopagite, a woman named Damaris, and others with them.
All people in the world are descended from the first two people God made, Adam and Eve.
The concept of "race" isn't even in the Bible. People are people. Each one is loved by God and precious to Him.
The divisions and animosity that separate us today are our own doing as sinful people.
