Who is this Richard Dawkins that everyone seems to like on Youtube?
Is he a Christian, a Jew, or a gentile?
AV, Dawkins is a famous British Biologist and an Atheist. He's written quite a few books, and rather had an interview of him put in Expelled in which they misconstrued some of his statements as supporting Panspermia.
He's a pretty interesting biologist, but he tends to be rather abrasive and annoying with his promotion of atheism. He does some debating.
Because it's paradoxically ironic in light of the fact that most Holocaust deniers (erm, Bobby Fischer was one) usually equate the Holocaust with creationism itself, seeing them both as Jewish religious mythologies. Moreover, there are no creationists in jail because of their views about biology.
Are there holocast deniers in jail because of their views?
Originally Posted by marlowe007
Incidentally, there's far more documented evidence for the Holocaust than for macroevolution:
Obviously there are different types of evidence for an historical event and a biological event. This doesn't mean one is convincing and another is not. In fact, the type of documentary evidence you used as an example is easily faked. Holocast deniers would indeed make that claim, as such documentation is obviously part of the over-all conspiracy. Just as the documentary evidence for the Moon landings are fake and part of the over-all conspiracy. On the other hand, one cannot fake the similarities we find in the genetic code, or embryology, or comparative anatomy, or biogeography, or the fossil record, etc.
__________________ "We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant." – Daniel Boorstin
"Ignorance should NOT be tolerated just because it's cloaked in religion."
-Phred
"Creationists can't all be right but they can all be wrong."
-Frumious Bandersnatch
On the other hand, one cannot fake the similarities we find in the genetic code, or embryology, or comparative anatomy, or biogeography, or the fossil record, etc.
Are you for or against racial hygiene, and on what grounds?
I'd say it's a very bad idea. It's a social idea drawing on ideas from biology, mainly horse- and dog-breeding. Popular among the Nazis, but has understandably died out since WWII.
So it breaks down somewhere on the molecular level, making it pseudoscience?
It does break down, but not on the molecular level. Let me explain. It's based on another bad idea that some human tribes are "better" than other human tribes, and there's not evidence indicating this. It has been an idea floating around predominantly among Christian European societies for a couple of hundred years, leading to the extensive colonization of what is now known as the "third world". It was taken to new extremes by a number of political extremists in the early 1900's, and by the Nazis during WWII.
Don't bother trying to spring your trap, AV. It's painfully obvious why you brought this up in the first place. As usual, though, you're fundamentally mistaken and your trap is bust.
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