I agree that the model set forth by Darwin was used as a template for his murderous genocides.
I was merely pointing out that while Hitler may have framed his support for such in a manner neo-consistent with Christianity when speaking to the crowds, it is wrong to conclude that those speeches are the true basis for which he drew the template.
Darwin may have not really understood how little others would care about the moral underpinnings of civilized society.
He seems to me either naive enough to not have taken into account how other men might utilize the logical implications of his theory, or so blinded by the excitement of his research that he published it with nothing but a mention in passing that to use his theory for bad would be bad.
What an astounding statement. Darwin was an intelligent scientist. I don't think there is any disagreement about that. He came up with a profound new explanation for the variety and species we see all around us.
His original work largely focused on finches, a bird that most of us hardly notice.
Yet, some here are blaming him for Nazi atrocities, or that he should have known better than to publish his results about birds.
Somehow, the HMS Beagle was the cause of the Holocaust. Why this isn't obviously utterly absurd to everyone here is scary.
I wonder if the Turks used Darwin in their genocide of the Armenians... /s
It is nonsense to link a scientific theory from the mid-1800's to the practice of genocide, which humans have engaged in for millennia.