1. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #166197 by pelothrix on April 23, 2008 at 1:45 am

For a truly elegant explanation by Dr Dawkins on the difference between natural selection, and the twisted political and moral notions of "Social Darwinists", listen to his New Yorker interview by Henry Finder, available on Audible.com:

http://www.audible.com/adbl/site/products/ProductDetail.jsp?productID=SP_NYEV_000038&BV_UseBVCookie=Yes

Ironically, as Dr Dawkins points out, the belief that the powerful deserve their wealth and privilege, and ought to be free to a increase their wealth without limit, gives us something rather like George Bush's America.

As Finder joked: "There you have it: an anti-Darwinian Darwinian." Indeed. As Dr Dawkins points out, we do not want our societies to resemble nature, where competition is ruthless, and the strong dominate the weak. We want to deliberately design our societies to be just the opposite. That is, decent society should protect the weak and vulnerable.