The analogy is not dumb.
Your conlcusions vis-a-vis Eugenics, Nazis and evolution are.
Anybody can take an idea or concept or theory and use it to justify nearly anything.
A lot of people used Christianity to justify the Inquisition, the Ku Klux Klan and the Requiremiento.
That is hardly a relfection on Christianity, but more due to the pervserseness of human behavior.
I would have used perversity as it’s much easier on the spell checker.
Yes it is.