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.
My, standards are falling. Usually creationists can last at least a hundred posts before introducing inane Hitler references.
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.
Let me get this straight: if evolution is correct, than Naziism is justified? Slowly backing away...