(November 29, 2010 at 7:33 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: It’s pretty apparent today that Scientists working in Nazi Germany were DEEPLY inspired by Darwin’s work.
So what? A group of people use the works of a scientist to "justify" hatred and genocide. This makes the works of the scientist culpable in the horrors perpetrated by the screwballs? Unless you can show me where Darwin proposed eliminating "inferior" people, your point is senseless.
Quote:This led to their practices in eugenics and helped to fuel their viewpoint that Jews were inferior to Secular Germans.
Actually, most Germans were members of one religion or another (mainly Christian).
Quote:Dictatorship may have been the tool that accomplished the Holocaust, but Scientism and Atheism were what drove this tool.
Bullshit.
No one was killed during the Holocaust because the Nazis were trying to promote an atheist agenda. They were killed because they were hated by those in power.
Quote:If you read many of Hitler’s own writings, his viewpoint of Christianity was very similar to a lot of the posters on here.
I think Sam addressed this point quite well. Thanks, Sam!
Quote:As for Newton, his belief in God is what drove his Science.
Even if this is true, so what? There have no doubt been people who were driven by outside factors to accomplish great things. Doesn't mean the outside factor is responsible for the accomplishment.
Quote:He actually spent more time studying scripture than he did Science.
And this proves.....?
Quote:He believed that the laws of nature should make sense to man because they were part of God’s natural revelation. So his Creationist viewpoints were what drove him to discover the laws of gravity. You can try to deny history all you want, but it is really just a futile exercise.
And none of this means you can credit "Creationism" for Newton's works.
Science flies us to the moon and stars. Religion flies us into buildings.
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?
God allowed 200,000 people to die in an earthquake. So what makes you think he cares about YOUR problems?