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Fascism and Nazism
I know this will come as a real shock to some of you, but Fascism and National Socialism are actually political ideologies, not loaded words that mean whatever you want. If you cannot name at least five of the planks of the Fascist Manifesto, then you have no right to call anyone a Fascist because you are an ignorant fool who is just trying to use an emotionally-loaded word to shut down those you disagree with. I don't care what your political science or sociology professor(s) or some writer has to say about Fascism or National Socialism. If they have taught you something other than the party planks of these two parties, then they are ignorant fools as well. The following are the manifestos of both of these political movements:Fascist Manifesto
Munich Manifesto
If you take the time to actually read those, you will see that it is simply not possible for a libertarian to be a fascist or a national socialist. In fact, you will find that there is a lot more in common between those manifestos and party programs and the ones of the major political parties in the United States than with the libertarian movement.
Evolution
I stopped believing in evolution before I became a Christian, or was even religious for that matter. Such a thing may sound strange, but the more that I reflected on the arguments for evolution in school, the more I found that I could not accept them. My instincts tell me that biologists tend to underestimate the complexity of not just the bodies of complex lifeforms, but also the complexity of what they do. By the time that I graduated from college with a degree in Computer Science, I had a very solid appreciation for the sheer complexity of what it is that the human brain in particular has to do, something that I never once heard an evolution proponent address.In my opinion, the issue of irreducible complexity in higher lifeforms falls into three intertwined areas: individual organs, integration between organs, and nervous system processes. The reason that I see this angle as unavoidable in talking about irreducible complexity is that even if organs can arise in nature, not only would they have to be integrated and timed properly, but the nervous system would have to be able to execute amazingly complicated tasks in order to make a higher lifeform function as they do. Technically speaking, all animals are nothing more than organic machines on a material level. That is why I think that evolutionists underestimate the extreme odds that such a complex system with so many interdependent, complex functions would arise, essentially by accident, in nature.
Of course, you may say "who are you to question men and women with PhDs in Biology." Fair enough, if you want to go that route. I suppose in all fairness that such people should be expected to shut up on any topic unrelated to their own field of study, such as history, where their ignorance is often breathtaking in how utterly plebeian it really is.
