[Junior]

Ah, once again you post quotes that have no bearing on the comments you purport to address. You used to be relevant to these discussions, but your actual contributions have dropped off considerably over the past couple of years.

I blame it on that crowd with which you insist upon running.

[AndrewC]

Ah, once again you post quotes that have no bearing on the comments you purport to address

That is due to your increasing blindness. If I am not relevant, don't answer. But my comments will still mean something to those who are not so blind as you. Remember, there are highly conserved regions of DNA that natural selection cannot explain.

[Aquinasfan]

From Darwin to Hitler

From Darwin to Hitler elucidates the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality. Weikart demonstrates that many leading Darwinian biologists and social thinkers in Germany believed that Darwinism overturned traditional Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment ethics, especially the view that human life is sacred. Many of these thinkers supported moral relativism, yet simultaneously exalted evolutionary "fitness" (especially intelligence and health) as the highest arbiter of morality. Darwinism played a key role in the rise not only of eugenics, but also euthanasia, infanticide, abortion, and racial extermination. This thinking had its biggest impact on Germany, since Hitler built his view of ethics on Darwinian principles, not on nihilism as popularly believed.