Re: Teilhard de Chardin - new documentary

On 2024-05-19 07:45:14 +0000, Martin Harran said:
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If a documentary were to be made about Darwin and did not refer to the
fact that some people [1] claim that he was racist and eugenicist,
even an encouragement to Naziism, would you regard that as
hagiography?
 [1] Some people NOT including me.

When has anyone not ignorant of the reality claimed that? Or anyone knowing the reality but lying about it? The creationist Denyse O'Leary has claimed this on the basis that the full title of The Origin of Species includes the words "favoured races". She claimed this despite knowing perfectly well that Darwin was not talking about human races, but about animal varieties. We wouldn't use "races" in that sense today, but that's irrelevant.
So, to answer your question, no, I don't think that a Darwin documentary is obliged  to mention what idiots and liars have said.
And no, I woudn't call it a hagiography.
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Athel -- French and British, living in Marseilles for 37 years; mainly in England until 1987.