2006-12-20 01:06:19 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In the past, the Eugenics movement did lots of damage through forced sterilizations and, occasionally, selective breeding.
However, many eugenicists weren't atheists but (self-described) "progressive" Christians, though there were plenty of freethinkers in their coalition. In the USA, only the Catholics and the Fundamentalists really resisted that movement. It wasn't until Hitler took eugenics to its logical conclusion that it became taboo.
For contemporary mad scientists, look up the Transhumanists. They're nuts into biomodification, genetic engineering, all sorts of stuff. See below.
2006-12-20 02:56:18 · answer #1 · answered by Blaargh_42 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Radical evolutionist atheists? Hmm, never heard of them. Now if you said the Crusades, I've heard of them!
I simply cannot understand why anyone would deny evolution except on the basis of a pedestal for humanity like those who denied that the Earth revolves around the Sun or that the Earth is round! It makes absolutely no sense at all to deny the facts that are out there proving that evolution does and did occur.
There have been hoaxes though, but true scientists have proved these things wrong. Hoaxes are not usually there for proving evolution, but for gaining recognition and money (like for further research projects). There is no motive for scientists to go about making something up like evolution. It's just what the evidence points to.
2006-12-20 01:12:11 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm no longer an atheist yet i'm one hundred% useful approximately evolution. So is something of the medical community. Evolution isn't an thought, it quite is a actuality- the theories lie interior the mechanisms of evolution, or the "why" of it. particular, there is info- geological strata, fossil record, and dna. Oh i think of I basically found out which you're being facetious. lol a minimum of, i for my area wish you're. Reallllllly.
2016-10-15 07:26:56 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone on this forum once posted a site that told about lab research that genetically altered fruit flies to prove that there is a gene for homosexuality...of course, the experiment kind of failed, since the fruit flies didn't reproduce, so they couldn't prove whether or not the gene could be inherited.
Don't you think that's rather crazy?
2006-12-20 08:04:47 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. They try to get Creationists to think instead of just letting them become extinct and leave the gene pool due to their ignorance.
2006-12-20 03:33:33 · answer #5 · answered by novangelis 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't have to do anything crazy ; the seeds already sown are in the proess of growing in that direction!
2006-12-20 01:09:36 · answer #6 · answered by Sami V 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's called 'civilization'. It is causing people to devolve into mindless religious fanatics living in cities dependent upon corporations and 'God' (a.k.a. "marketing") to tell them what to eat, what to think, and to keep having too many babies so that the planet is consumed.
2006-12-20 01:10:22 · answer #7 · answered by auntiegrav 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Archaeologist have buried hoax artifacts to prove their baseless theories.
2006-12-20 01:10:04 · answer #8 · answered by Boilerfan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only in really bad sci-fi movies.
2006-12-20 01:08:53 · answer #9 · answered by togashiyokuni2001 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No-----------only the hand of G-d keeps evolution moving along.
2006-12-20 01:08:00 · answer #10 · answered by Shossi 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋