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Isn't it the case that various religious groups consider themselves tocut
be "the chosen people"? Slippery slope, indeed.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Bernard Cleyet
<bernardcleyet@redshift.com> wrote:
LEADING CANDIDATE FOR FLORIDA MAYOR THINKS EVOLUTION IS NAZI IDEA
[Not a correct headline.]
ST PETERSBURG TIMES - Darwin's theory of evolution helped fuel the
rise of Hitler and contributed to the school-shooting massacre at
Columbine, a former St. Petersburg City Council member wrote in a
letter urging the Pinellas County School Board to expose students to
alternative theories.
"Evolution gives our kids an excuse to believe in natural selection
and survival of the fittest, which leads to a belief that they are
superior over the weak," Bill Foster wrote board members in a letter
received this week. "This is a slippery slope."
He continued: "One of the Columbine shooters wrote on his Web site,
'You know what I love? Natural selection! It's the best thing that
ever happened to the Earth. Getting rid of all the stupid and weak
organisms.'"
Foster, who recently stepped down after being term-limited from
office, is widely considered to be a leading contender to be St.
Petersburg's next mayor in 2009. He said Friday he wrote the letter,
which appears on his law firm's stationery, as the concerned parent
of a high school student. . .
Foster isn't the first Darwin critic to attempt to link evolutionary
theory to violence and racism, but he is the first public figure in
the Florida debate to do so.