Please learn to read. I referred to eugenics as "artificial selection", and never referred to it as "natural selection". In the post you quote, I said, "eugenics is what you get when a fascist ponders natural selection." That's a statement of historical fact; eugenicists and social darwinians explicitly extrapolate their theories from the principle of survival of the fittest.
Obviously, Darwin himself is not to blame. He was dead by the time such movements got off the ground.
Please learn to think.
I referred to eugenics as "artificial selection", and never referred to it as "natural selection". In the post you quote, I said, "eugenics is what you get when a fascist ponders natural selection." That's a statement of historical fact; eugenicists and social darwinians explicitly extrapolate their theories from the principle of survival of the fittest.
You may have used "artificial selection" in a later post, but you did not use anything but "natural selection" in the post I responded to (or in any post priot to it on this thread, for that matter). Further, I did not say you referred to it as natural selection; I was responding to the false information which you disseminated in your post. I was making the point that to assert that eugenics results from or is anyway related to natural selection is idiocy.
Moreover, the fact that the eugenicists and so-called social Darwinists idiotically (or ignorantly) attributed their thinking to Darwin and the principles of natural selection does not give anyone license to propagate the error.
Obviously, Darwin himself is not to blame. He was dead by the time such movements got off the ground.
On that we can agree.
And Hitler explicitly extrapolated his rabid anti-Semitism from his professed Christianity. Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Can we agree that both natural selection and Christianity have been misused by evil people to justify their policies? Can we also agree that linking either Christianity or the theory of evolution to 20th century tyrannies and genocides is an exercise in sophistry?