Floyd, my dear chap,Thank you for the kind note.
: Actually, this myth was invented out of whole cloth by Lady Hope who, by all reliable accounts, probably never even met Darwin. See this website for a refutation of the myth and references.
And this has been countered by Oxford Professor Dr. Victor Pearce in his series "Evidence for Truth" (Available through Evidence for Truth Ministiy, Eastbourne, England). He provides details which demonstrate intimate knowledge of this occurence. Are you going to also claim that Darwin was in fact not horrified by Haeckel's use of evolutionism, perhaps another myth?
: : Interestingly enough,... Eugenics. ...Aryan ... Planned Parenthood...
: Well, remember that the "Branch Davidians" and the "People's Temple" of Jim Jones were also based on the principles of Christianity. As Farinata has explained, numerous times, historical misuse of a concept by people who do not understand that concept does not refute the concept, only the use. If you hold Darwin responsible for fascism, do you also hold Jesus responsible for Jonestown and Waco? The logic (if you can even call it that) is the same, and it is invalid in both cases.
There is a difference in Salvation and the organisationalism that you mention above with sects and cults. Your analogy here is not applicable because it is in individuals (not collective as in the eugenisist, fascist , etc. movements or in the claimed salvation through sectarianism or denomonationalism) that Christ saves and hence one becomes a Christian. Membership in a denomonation cannot save. Membership in evolutionary movements such as eugenicism are destructive.
Moreover it was Farinata who first stated that races are different species, and then a couple of posts later said that race was a genetically meaningless term. Now that's going from one end of the pitch to the other in extraordinary flippancy, wouldn't you agree? Perhaps I'm being vindicated by my counter-partners here.
: : O.K., Who then IS the closest "related" species to Homo-Sapien-Sapien and is he in fact 4,000,000 years old? The same logic will apply.
: For your edification, I used "hundreds of thousands" as a sort of shorthand to mean "a lot", simply because the number varies between taxa and I didn't feel like lecturing when I'm not on the clock.
Thanks for the edification, however I thought that words meant what they were suppose to mean. After all I was roundly criticised for not reading carefully enough just the post before.
You and Farinata have perhaps unknowingly delivered me another great vindication here. Remember many months ago on several occassions I questioned the "Row of Stooping Ape-men". I stated that they existed in plaster, paintings, rubber and plastic but not in reality. Now both you and Farinata confirm that these chaps such as Neanderthalis are not related to us in any way. Looking at the science book, either you are feeding me some bad information or I was correct all along in saying that this chap doesn't belong here. Perhaps its time for me to wipe out everything back to the Rampithicenes now given your new information.
As always Floyd, it has indeed been a pleasure. Perhaps I'll reach America some day and we'll meet face to face over a Big Mac and a Coke. God Bless.
Robert
