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But it has nothing at all to do with what we were saying about Thomas Huxley and the club, whichever club that is, my fingers are full from counting clubs.

So where does this fit into all of that?

I cannot overemphasize this enough. I do not see where this fits in with Thomas Huxley. Would you puhlllease explain the connection you are trying to make here?

How far do I have to streeettch to get you to understand?
Sure, I probably should have been more to the point.
Thomas Huxley understood a little about evolution but some of his misunderstanding was almost as poor as CTD's understanding of Hackel's hypothesis about recapitulation.
Since Huxley couldn't really explain evolution in a cogent fashion to the scientific community, he had to work in the political and art worlds to influence the acceptance of evolution. Unfortunately, Mr Huxley's misunderstandings and his bent towards atheism led to a skewed version of evolution (humans are not all on the same level, evolution acceptance requires atheism...etc) being communicated to the nonscientists. It is this skewed version of evolution that lead to the crazy stuff like eugenics and Hitler's final solution.
This is much akin to CTD's egregious misunderstandings about Hackel's hypothesis leading to his outlandishly ignorant conclusions about what the hypothesis should have predicted and his unreasonable assumption concerning the intelligence and gullibility of all evolutionists.

That is, assuming CTD is a creationist at all....which I doubt.

Does this explanation help?

A faith that connot survive collision with the truth is not worth many regrets. -- Arthur C. Clarke