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| February 22, 2017 12:00 AM

Jack DeBaun’s feathers are ruffled by my associating his humanism with the atheistic wars in the past. I draw a correlation between those non-religious wars and modern humanism for a good reason. The seeds of modern humanism are from the same tainted tree of atheism. Atheism and Darwinism are tenets of humanism. Those dictators I listed were inspired by and being consistent with atheism and Darwinism.

Mr. DeBaun in his atheistic zeal jumps to a conclusion regarding Jensen. I cited Jensen as a hostile critic of Paul. The criticism is still valid. Jensen exhibits a bit more caution about the conclusions of his research than Mr. Debaun is desperate for. Jensen says, “The more complex analysis in this study applies to the set of nations studied and does not allow a conclusive determination of the fundamental source of the high rate of homicide in the United States.” He then later adds, “However, the United States also has a high rate of income inequality, a relatively under-funded welfare safety net, and other characteristics that could explain the high homicide rate” Closing the study he says, “The data are cross-sectional and the temporal links among the variables studied have not been established.” Another words the suggested implications of the study being set forth by the data being farmed are not verified in the real world.

What is bogus is Jack’s case for humanism and his use of Paul & Jensen to make it. See https://goo.gl/3vCokD for the addendum.

TIM KNAPP

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