http://daleridgechurchofchrist.net Serving Botetourt County, Cloverdale and Roanoke an Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:02:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://daleridgechurchofchrist.net/2009/02/12/does-all-human-life-have-value/ http://daleridgechurchofchrist.net/2009/02/12/does-all-human-life-have-value/#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:00:12 +0000 Michael http://daleridgechurchofchrist.net/?p=1190         Today would have been Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday if he were still alive. Many of us are aware of him as the author of the book Origin of Species. However, how many of us are familiar with Sir Francis Galton (seen in the picture to the right), the father of the ideology known as eugenics? He was Darwin’s cousin who formulated this idea from Darwin’s influence. Whereas Darwin believed in the survival of the fittest in the natural realm, Galton attempted to apply this in an artificial sense in speeding up the process by only allowing the elite …

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