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Dawkins on the Truth of Evolution

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Cato the Elder2/17/2009 7:55:40 pm PST

One thing about the creationism/ID people is that when you scratch the surface, many of them turn out to be racists as well.

What is racism? It’s the idea that there are distinct groups within the species of mankind (self-evident), and that some of them are better than others (not evident at all), and that therefore the “better” ones should be privileged above the rest (plainly false).

But for there to be distinct groups, they had to come from somewhere. Since in the mind of a creationist they can’t have “evolved”, they must have been created separately by God. And since the creationist often holds that some are better than others, God must have created them thus.

Ergo, God is a racist, in their minds. The all-loving friend of humankind, to them, is a racist.

Never mind that we all came from Adam and Eve, and if there’s no evolution, we necessarily all have to belong to the same race. That would be just too damn consistent for these people.