FAITHWIRE/ Dan Andros-
Famed atheist Richard Dawkins is under fire for a tweet which made the case for eugenics as an effective, if not morally acceptable, policy.
“It’s one thing to deplore eugenics on ideological, political, moral grounds. It’s quite another to conclude that it wouldn’t work in practice. Of course it would,” Dawkins concluded before explaining his reasoning more. “It works for cows, horses pigs, dogs & roses. Why on earth wouldn’t it work for humans? Facts ignore ideology.”
Needless to say, people did not react well to the tweet.
After the onslaught of backlash, Dawkins sought to clarify.
“For those determined to miss the point, I deplore the idea of a eugenic policy. I simply said deploring it doesn’t mean it wouldn’t work. Just as we breed cows to yield more milk, we could breed humans to run faster or jump higher. But heaven forbid that we should do it,” he said in a follow-up tweet. Continue reading…
