[wagglebee]

Racist eugenics is an integral component of Darwinism, it is a central component to the "religion" of the left, and in the past century this has caused more bloodshed than all of the wars, plagues, famines and murders in the history of the world combined.

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[shuckmaster]

Thanks for giving more evidence that evolution deniers are stuck on stupid.

[js1138]

This from a man whose “museum” teaches that it is OK to have sex with your sister if she’s the only date you can find.

[metmom]

"Without the legal ability to enforce slavery, many people turned to the theories of Darwin to justify racism in its many forms," the book says. "They began to use evolution as justification of their views that African-Americans were an inferior 'race' and a 'sub-species' that was not really fully human and not deserving of fair and equal treatment."

Col 3:11 Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all.

Christianity clearly teaches that all are equal before God. I guess someone who wanted racism needed something to justify it and found it in Darwinism.

[Bat_Chemist]

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[Tired of Taxes]

Interesting.

For the record, I’ve always accepted natural selection as fact. I found the subject fascinating in school. But, yes, as the article points out, it’s obvious that eugenicists and racists of all kinds derive their theories from the theory of evolution. The Holocaust and euthanasia is what happens when natural selection is used (or misused) as a guide for life, without a belief in Natural Law or a moral guide.

Still, if people like Hitler truly wanted to live according to Darwin’s theory alone, they would never exterminate people nor frown upon intermarriage between groups. In survival of the fittest, variety is important. When the environment changes, the very traits that were a disadvantage in the previous environment can be an asset in the new environment.

[SunkenCiv]

"Physical, mental, and moral peculiarities go with blood and not with language. In the United States the negroes have spoken English for generations; but no one on that ground would call them Englishmen, or expect them to differ physically, mentally, or morally from other negroes." -- Thomas Huxley, "Darwin's Bulldog" [Erik Trinkaus, Pat Shipman, The Neandertals pp 46-47]

[steve-b]

Well, I suppose that makes sense, since racism was invented in the mid 19th century. Before that, everybody just smiled on their brother and learned to love one another. [/S]

[RightWhale]

his beliefs did more to fuel racism than the ideas of any other single individual

That is blatant nonsense. Racism was the rule of the day and Darwin was merely a product of his times.

[Dumb_Ox]

Oddly enough, Darwin's monogenic theory of common ancestry was in some respects less racist than the special creation theories of Louis Aggasiz it supplanted. Aggasiz was no proponent of Adam and Eve. He was a polygenist, holding that species more or less appeared in their present form where they were discovered. This meant that Africans, Amerindians, Asians, and Europeans were not necessarily part of the same species.

Louis Menand's The Metaphysical Club has more on this.