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Reply #22: The religious people who "preached" eugenics were practicing a new religion, not science. [View All]

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beam me up scottie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-22-06 06:41 PM
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22. The religious people who "preached" eugenics were practicing a new religion, not science.
The info in the stub you link to doesn't even fit the definition you used in the op:

Main Entry: fun·da·men·tal·ism

1 a often capitalized : a movement in 20th century Protestantism emphasizing the literally interpreted Bible as fundamental to Christian life and teaching b : the beliefs of this movement c : adherence to such beliefs

2 a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles



Early efforts to breed better human beings have not been uniformly successful. Darwin's half-cousin, the English scientist Francis Galton, is widely regarded as the founder of eugenics. "Eugenics", a term Galton coined, comes from the Greek roots for "good" and "generation" or "origin". Eugenicists seek methods to improve the hereditary characteristics - both physical and mental - of the human species. However, eugenicists have not agreed upon which heritable traits should selected - nor by whom. Nor have they agreed on whether to use encouragement or coercion.



You'll have to do better than that if you want to equate science and religion.

Perhaps you'll find what you're looking for at the http://www.discovery.org/">Discovery Institute.


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