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All you have to do is look at the pictures.

It seems like the people who were butchered by Hitler had no problem understanding his evolutionary motives. Hitler made it very clear that his mythical race of supermen were the only ones that deserved to live and that the rest hadn't evolved as far. What kind of a closed mind can deny Hitler's ties to evolution? The same kind that denies the holocaust.

Hitler was not an evolutionist. How many times does this tactic have to be used before it dies? He believed in eugenics. Eugenics is what we do when we breed dogs. Social Darwinism and eugenics are perversions of the theory of descent with modification.

OK, for all of the science-minded people out there: why do we bother? Honestly, is Dataman or f.Christian ever going to turn around and say, oh wait, those deeply emotional ties I had to this relgious belief, yeah, those were no good. I agree with you now. They will consistently call us evil, and that's the way it is. Is there a good ending to this? Can someone help me out here?

PatrickHenry is wrong as usual.

All you have to do is look at the pictures.

It seems like the people who were butchered by Hitler had
no problem understanding his evolutionary motives.
Hitler made it very clear that his mythical race of
supermen were the only ones that deserved to live and that
the rest hadn't evolved as far. What kind of a closed
mind can deny Hitler's ties to evolution? The same kind that denies the holocaust.

Wow. The shear lack of logic in that post alone, just wow.
Incidentally, by invoking Godwin's law, this thread is now over with the win handed to the scientists.
Those with a keen grasp of the obvious should know which group I'm talking about.

All you have to do is look at the pictures.

Why does it not surprise me that a creationist would think that "just looking at the pictures" like a kid who can't read would bring sufficient understanding?

As another poster has already pointed out, Hitler believed in eugenics, the kind of thing that cattle or sheep or dog breeders do, and which was done and understood long before Darwin ever came along. Hitler never attempted to bring about "new" species of humans through selection, so Darwinian evolution is entirely beside the point.

But then, you'd have to *understand* evolution to grasp a point like that, and again you demonstrate your lack of understanding.

It seems like the people who were butchered by Hitler had no problem understanding his evolutionary motives.

Yawn. See above. Presumably Hitler's victims were brighter on this topic than you were.

Hitler made it very clear that his mythical race of supermen were the only ones that deserved to live and that the rest hadn't evolved as far.

Horse manure -- while he believed that other races were "inferior", I have found no evidence that he based this on an *evolutionary* argument. Need I point out to you that there have been many Christian racists who justified their views on the claim that some races were *created* less than human?

What kind of a closed mind can deny Hitler's ties to evolution?

The kind that understands the issues.

The same kind that denies the holocaust.

Oh, now you're just being an asshole. Grow up.