In article >,
"J. Clarke" > wrote:

> > Before technological intervention on a massive scale, natural selection
> > took care of bad gene combinations. FWIW, I think the liberal process of
> > protecting people from bad throws of genetic dice cannot go on for many
> > more generations. Liberals have to stop trying to prevent natural
> > selection while conservatives have to stop denying evolution is at the
> > center of human and other biology.
>
> "Conservatives" don't deny this. There's a lunatic fringe that does,
> but they're not the mainstream. Unfortunately the press gives them good
> coverage--if the press would just ignore them the world would be a
> better place.

Having once been a conservative Republican, I see no conflict between
being conservative and believing evolution takes place. Starting with
Ronald Reagan, however, the conservative nuts have taken over the
Republican party. As a consequence, I reluctantly became a Democrat.

Bill

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An old man would be better off never having been born.