In light of the fact that I started this thread, I reserve the right to interject whenever I see fit to do so.
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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
...Yes Science is merely observation. It doesn't do anything but, observe. Science would be useless if that knowledge wasn't used to manipulate our environment. Farmers use what they have observed about how things grow to grow crops that yield more and are of higher quality. Hitler used Darwin's observations and decided to help nature along. He tried to weed humanity of what he saw as inferior strains of humans. He also tried to breed a superior race of humans; didn't he?
Hitler embraced Darwin's suggestion that there were "favoured races" and used that hypothesis in a very pragmatic way.
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An important point missed in all of this is how you and peter12 seem to be missing that real science CANNOT be held accountable for people's ignorance of how it works properly. Furthermore, real science CANNOT be held responsible for the decisions of people to act upon their interpretations of science.
Photon has tried to make this point in a few of his previous posts, but this apparently needs to be stated much more explicitly. Please read carefully: Connecting racism, genocide, apartheid, etc. directly to the theory of evolution does nothing to preclude any of it's scientific merits. NOTHING.