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Darwin's thought would become an important influence on Adolf Hitler.

This is one of the dumber ideas that surfaces in the evolution threads from time to time. First, let's consider REAL evolutionists, starting with Darwin himself, and continuing to today's biologists, physicians, etc. None is a mass murderer. This alone is overwhelming evidence that studying biology is not something that triggers genocidal insanity. The simple fact is that Hitler was no biologist. He used a few phrases about evolution to justify his madness. So what? He was also a believer in astrology, pagan mythology, and probably a dozen other ideas. And he was a vegetarian too. Do all those things lead to genocidal insanity? Besides, the Taliban are creationists. Does that tell you anything? Actually, it means nothing. Guilt by association is an absurd method of thinking.

Blaming Darwin for the Holocaust is very much like blaming Einstein for Nagasaki. That said, Darwin's later work did advocate a nascent form of eugenics, whereas Einstein in no way advocated nuclear warfare. See, for instance, the last chapter of The Descent of Man, where he starts promoting genetic fitness and noting that social welfare policy inhibit this genetic fitness. He also cites Galton, the founder of the eugenics movement, who has enjoyed quite the following in the racialist movement.

You apparently are pretty ignorant of the ideas of Charles Dariwn. Darwin was a racist and has similar ideas to Hitler's:

One of the most important yet least-known aspects of Darwin is his racism: Darwin regarded white Europeans as more "advanced" than other human races. While Darwin presumed that man evolved from ape-like creatures, he surmised that some races developed more than others and that the latter still bore simian features. In his book, The Descent of Man, which he published after The Origin of Species, he boldly commented on "the greater differences between men of distinct races".(1) In his book, Darwin held blacks and Australian Aborigines to be equal to gorillas and then inferred that these would be "done away with" by the "civilised races" in time. He said:

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 between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.(2)

Killing the weaker (the elderly and handicapped) is also very consistent with the idea of survival of the fitest and Hitler did that before he started trying to create the master race.

Further, Hitler is not the only tryant influenced by Darwin. Darwinism is a foundation of atheism and a foundation of tryannical atheist nations.

Soviet communist leaders like Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin. Trotsky said he was "intoxicated by Darwin's ideas. Stalin rejected Christianity at 19 after reading the works of Darwin.