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I read your link--the reviewers big beef is with the linkage of Darwinism and the Holocaust.

Stein is not taking on science, from what I'm reading, he's about Ideas and History and Free Inquiry.

There is nothing extreme about finding the roots of Darwinism in the Holocaust--the "Master Race" was about exterminating "inferiors"--Darwinism gone mad, but Darwinism nonetheless. Margaret Sanger, eugenicists--all from an Idea.

The Dawkin bunch are attempting to suppress dissent--powerful scientist often do. Look at how the climate change crowd tries to shout down skeptics so they can cash in on carbon credits.

There is nothing extreme about finding the roots of Darwinism in the Holocaust--the "Master Race" was about exterminating "inferiors"

Indeed, one would have to be pretty lame to deny there is some sort of deep connection between the two, after, say, reviewing the notes on my FR homepage.

Darwinism gone mad, but Darwinism nonetheless.

I don't agree that eugenics is darwinism gone mad. What makes eugenics plausible is the Darwinian notion of heredity. That is, anything you imagine can be inherited or passed along to offspring. Darwin even thought that the 'progress of America' was a germinal trait that could be inherited and selected for. Things have not changed one whit since then, as you can see for yourself when you read evolutionists rant on about the evolution of bird-songs, mating-habits, morality, religion, preferenced for blondes, alcoholism, homosexuality... none of which can be idenitfied with anything in genetic matter. Eugenics is merely a consequence of the usual darwinian way of thinking about heredity.

There is nothing extreme about finding the roots of Darwinism in the Holocaust--the "Master Race" was about exterminating "inferiors"-

My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter.

In boundless love as a Christian and as a man I read through the passage which tells us how the Lord at last rose in His might and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple the brood of vipers and adders. How terrific was His fight for the world against the Jewish poison.

-- Adolf Hitler, in a speech on 12 April 1922 (Norman H. Baynes, ed.

The Speeches of Adolf Hitler, April 1922-August 1939, Vol. 1 of 2, pp. 19-20, Oxford University Press, 1942)