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                 Darwinist materialist dogma but fail to do so. He owes his
                 fame to the baby murders committed in 1996 and 1997.
                     In the first of these, an American couple both 18 and
                 high school students strangled their illegitimate baby and
                 threw the corpse into a large rubbish bin. In the second case

                 an 18 year-old American girl left half way through her prom
                 and gave birth in the toilets. She then killed the baby, threw
                 the body into the bin, and returned to the party.
                     These two shocking cases demonstrated to Americans

                 the extent of violence, cruelty, and mercilessness prevailing
                 in their society. People were shocked and these cases were
                 widely discussed. Most people argued that these incompre-
                 hensible murders were the result of moral degeneration and
                 the psychological instability of the perpetrators.
                     However, one of the best known and most ardent

                 American Darwinists, Steven Pinker, interpreted these cases
                 very differently. Pinker argued that these cases were not the
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