There have been several threads recently dealing with the putative inhumane application of Theory of Evolution, or more particularly "Darwinism" (variation, adaptation, natural selection).
It's been claimed (right here in the good ol' TWeb Natural Science forum) that the ideology of Darwinism led to the eugenics movement, and its fruition in the Nazi racial purges.
1) Does the misapplication of a scientific theory count as evidence against it?
2) Have there been other scientific explanations of natural phenomena supported by evidence and the testing of hypotheses that have been attacked as invalid scientifically due to their putative misapplications?
This will make possibly an interesting discussion on the historical interaction between the scientific study of nature and the entrenched cultural (religious, political) practices with which it has bumped heads.
Geocentrism perhaps?
K54
It's been claimed (right here in the good ol' TWeb Natural Science forum) that the ideology of Darwinism led to the eugenics movement, and its fruition in the Nazi racial purges.
1) Does the misapplication of a scientific theory count as evidence against it?
2) Have there been other scientific explanations of natural phenomena supported by evidence and the testing of hypotheses that have been attacked as invalid scientifically due to their putative misapplications?
This will make possibly an interesting discussion on the historical interaction between the scientific study of nature and the entrenched cultural (religious, political) practices with which it has bumped heads.
Geocentrism perhaps?
K54
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