Eugenics in History and the Bible
I'm getting sick of the constant shrill coming out of the Discovery Institute trying to link "Darwinism" with eugenics. The creationists love to claim that such an idea could never have existed before Darwin came up with the idea of natural selection, but that is patently false.
All animals in the wild abandon unfit babies the moment they're born, even those species without advanced degrees in biology....
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Hi Greg, thanks again for all the links you've been throwing my way lately. It's really driven up my traffic and netted me a bunch of new commenters.
Good to know I'm reaching somebody.