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Thread #153464   Message #3597952
Posted By: GUEST,Stim
03-Feb-14 - 01:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: Darwin's Witnesses
Subject: RE: BS: Darwin's Witnesses
Dave the Gnome says "I don't know how else to say that some clerics preach hate. No scientists do." Haven't you ever heard of "Scientific Racism"? Championing the idea of a master race, didn't go out of style with the Nazis.

It's been advanced by such luminaries as Nobel Prize winning Physicist William Shockley, andmost very recently advocated in The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life is a 1994 book by American psychologist Richard J. Hernstein and American political scientist Charles Murray. Columnist Bob Herbert, writing for The New York Times, described the book as "a scabrous piece of racial pornography masquerading as serious scholarship." "Mr. Murray can protest all he wants," wrote Herbert; "his book is just a genteel way of calling somebody a nigger."