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Exterminate

Exterminate

1. To drive out or away; to expel. They deposed, exterminated, and deprived him of communion. (Barrow)

2. To destroy utterly; to cut off; to extirpate; to annihilate; to root out; as, to exterminate a colony, a tribe, or a nation; to exterminate error or vice. To explode and exterminate rank atheism. (Bentley)

3. (Science: mathematics) to eliminate, as unknown quantities.

Origin: L. Exterminatus, p. P. Of exterminare to abolish, destroy, drive out or away; ex out _ terminus boundary, limit. See term.


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Darwin and Racism

Charles Darwin wrote At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes . . . will no doubt be exterminated. The break ...

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by AFJ
Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:56 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
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Re: Future Human Evolution

... Hitler have an idea like this. Then what will happen to the burdensome genetic undesirables, will someone make them slaves, neuter them, or just exterminate them? People like to ignore moral implications in their excitement of the possibilities. Or be naive and deny that anyone would do that. ...

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by AFJ
Fri Jul 10, 2009 1:53 am
 
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Topic: Future Human Evolution
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Artificial Life Created

Sounds like reviving a zombie that will exterminate everything later... I used to watch one of its contemporaries. ^-^

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by mcar
Fri Dec 07, 2007 5:45 am
 
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Topic: Artificial Life Created
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Another creationist thread

... evolution by way of mutation would be handed yet another setback when “natural selection,” the supposed friend of evolution, would quickly exterminate all those stupid enough to try it. Yet this is exactly the device that evolution relies on. You could compare a mutation to taking a brief ...

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by elevent
Fri Nov 16, 2007 11:55 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Another creationist thread
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... of Man, he wrote "..at some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world.” In other words, he equated “society” with race. Is it any wonder their words were ...

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Sat Aug 04, 2007 7:29 pm
 
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