This issue is hardly tha battle over america's soul, not even close. What a bunch of hooey.
I watched the first two and then a bit tonight. This seems to be a 10 days that changed America toward the liberal view. The Mystic attack was all PC and how bad the settlers were.
Let me know when it shows up in Science or Nature.
You have to picture evolution as a kind of a pipeline or hose representing ten million years, with monkeys walking in at one end and humans out the other. Selective advantage and genetic death are the things which supposedly prevent our seeing creatures of all stages of the process walking around on the street. Supposedly, once a handful of creatures get the "beneficial mutation", the old stock gradually dies out and then the process starts again.
That's basically what Hitler and the nazis were seeing in evolution. Basically, they figured that if the arrival of a new and better racial stock doomed the old stock to extinction one way or another, they were not doing them (the old stock) any favors by prolonging the agony. Similarly when asked about the fire bomb raids, Curtis LeMay replied that you were not doing a dog with a cancerous tail any favors to cut it off in slices.
Hitler and the other nazis were not guilty of any failure of logic; in fact, what you had was a case of working assumptions being wrong. The real criminal in the picture was Charles Darwin.
Reading about the Scope's trial is what proved the destructive nature of the ACLU, for me. The professor was a nut, and he knew he was a nut, but the ACLU said, oh that's okay, we like nutty people. Besides we need new and clever ammunition for destroying America...