I don't know how to describe Patrick Ferdinand or take a guess at his 'qualifications' but what I will say is 'Hail to you Patrick Ferdinand, Sir', for this paragraph alone: quote To try to explain everything by quoting God is ignorance and mental lethargy, dressed up in spirituality. Finally, as regards Evolution and morality, organized Religion is an insult to human morality. With or without it, you have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things, but for good people to do evil things, it takes religion. Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. unquote
'for good people to do evil things, it takes religion' 'men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction' .... like crucifying Jesus Christ..... massacres thro' Crusades and inquisitions of yore ....demolition of Babri Masjid.... the Godhra carnage .... Kandamal burnings .... Cheers floriano goasuraj ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sandeep Heble" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 04, 2009 12:11 PM Subject: [Goanet] Why blame Charles Darwin? On 13th September, the Herald in its 'Mirror' segment carried an Opinion Piece by Bernard Simoes titled "Did Charles Darwin mislead us?'. The same is available for viewing at http://tinyurl.com/npzrus In the said Opinion piece, the author pins the blame for all the evils that have afflicted mankind - terrorism, wars, racism, etc - on Charles Darwin and his Evolution theory, calling it the bane of Science. Today's Herald Mirror carries a rejoinder by Patrick Ferdinand. The same is appended below. ------------------------------------ Why blame Charles Darwin? By Patrick Ferdinand Mr. Bernard Simoes had written a diatribe against Charles Darwin and his monumental work 'The Origin of Species', three weeks ago on this very page of the Sunday herald Mirror(13 September), accusing him of being the cause of all the ills that have afflicted mankind since its publication, 150 years ago......................
