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<DIV>Pat and Visionaries:</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks for the references, Pat but you are begging the point. Your
claim Pat, as I understand it was that the rise of Nazism and subsequently the
Holocaust was based on the Darwinian theories of evolution and 20th century
eugenic theory. Not so. The following test addresses the fallacy you
employed to arrive at this conclusion, It's called Post hoc, ergo propter
hoc.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=2>"Post hoc, ergo propter hoc" is Latin for "after
this, therefore because of this." It is used to refer to the logical fallacy of
assuming that because one event follows another it was also caused by it. For
example: "I thought of my brother, and then, like, two seconds later he phoned
me. He must have felt my aura and responded to me." Or, less fancifully, but
equally flawed: "The rooster cock ‘a doodled and the sun rose. Therefore, the
rooster's sound must have caused the sun to rise."</FONT> </DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,SunSans-Regular
size=2>Sometimes an event happens after another event coincidentally, and the
two have nothing to do with each other. The mere fact of proximity in time
should not be taken as sufficient proof of a cause-and-effect relationship,
because it ain't.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif,SunSans-Regular size=2>At other
times, a number of partial causes lead to an effect, but one is selected as the
sole cause. This is called "oversimplification of the cause," and it is also
flawed thinking. We can't establish what is actually the case solely by
reference to when things happen. So long as you don't fall into thinking that
you can thusly establish things, you won't commit the post hoc, ergo propter hoc
fallacy.</FONT> </P>
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<DIV>It might be worthwhile for you to read the paper (link below) in
which </DIV>
<DIV>Professor Yehuda Bauer discusses the anti-Semitic climate in medieval
Europe and Germany in particular - which of course had been on-going
several hundred years before Darwin.</DIV>
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<DIV>Rose Huskey</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Verdana size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">"One cannot
level one's moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are just too many
of them. But you can do something, and the difference between doing something
and doing nothing is everything." Daniel Berrigan<BR></FONT><FONT lang=0
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