Posted on 08/22/2006 2:04:20 PM PDT by js1138
ADL Blasts Christian Supremacist TV Special & Book Blaming Darwin For Hitler
New York, NY, August 22, 2006 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today blasted a television documentary produced by Christian broadcaster Dr. D. James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries that attempts to link Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to Adolf Hitler and the atrocities of the Holocaust. ADL also denounced Coral Ridge Ministries for misleading Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute for the NIH, and wrongfully using him as part of its twisted documentary, "Darwin's Deadly Legacy."
After being contacted by the ADL about his name being used to promote Kennedy's project, Dr. Collins said he is "absolutely appalled by what Coral Ridge Ministries is doing. I had NO knowledge that Coral Ridge Ministries was planning a TV special on Darwin and Hitler, and I find the thesis of Dr. Kennedy's program utterly misguided and inflammatory," he told ADL.
ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman said in a statement:"This is an outrageous and shoddy attempt by D. James Kennedy to trivialize the horrors of the Holocaust. Hitler did not need Darwin to devise his heinous plan to exterminate the Jewish people. Trivializing the Holocaust comes from either ignorance at best or, at worst, a mendacious attempt to score political points in the culture war on the backs of six million Jewish victims and others who died at the hands of the Nazis.
"It must be remembered that D. James Kennedy is a leader among the distinct group of 'Christian Supremacists' who seek to "reclaim America for Christ" and turn the U.S. into a Christian nation guided by their strange notions of biblical law."
The documentary is scheduled to air this weekend along with the publication of an accompanying book "Evolution's Fatal Fruit: How Darwin's Tree of Life Brought Death to Millions."
A Coral Ridge Ministries press release promoting the documentary says the program "features 14 scholars, scientists, and authors who outline the grim consequences of Darwin's theory of evolution and show how his theory fueled Hitler's ovens."
>>But it *does* provide good evidence that he was influenced by Christianity.
> That's like saying Madalyn Murray O'Hare was "influenced" by Christianity.
Or saying that Hitler was "influenced" by Darwin.
> Why would Hitler try to replace deep-seated Christian holidays with non-Christian ones i.e. Christmas with the Winter Solstice?
Because he was forming his own religion. How does that negate the fact that he was "influenced" by Christianity?
How can someone grow up surrounded by a religion and *not* be influenced by it? It's like suggesting that he wasn't "influenced" by German culture.
I answered you question, in a way calculated to save several steps in the usual long, dreary and meaningless Creationist arguementation style.
> which flies (pbbblt), flies (pbbblt) right in Darwinism's face.
Heh. *I* get it...
There is no style or planned agenda -- no list of 20 questions. I am just trying to figure out your reasoning. Having studied the biological sciences for 25 years and realizing the incredible complexity of such compared to human-created objects, it is not possible for such to arrive without an intelligent plan or an information source. I fully understand that biological systems change over time, but from chemical soup to self awareness by time and chance is not possible.
If the Nazi genocie hadn't been about religion, it wouldn't have singled out as victims, the people the Germans accused of killing Jesus. If the Nazis had been interested in promoting the best and most fit, they would have elevated jews to top positions.
Then you've been conned.
He is very knowledgable on the religion of the Founding Fathers
He is also a purveyor of patent falsehoods regarding the Founding Fathers, using the fabricated quotes deployed by David Barton of "Wallbuilders", and making up tales out of whole cloth to support his poorly disguised contention that the U.S. was founded as a Christian theocracy. The man is a fraud.
Actually, Hitler got the idea from the 1000 years of the Roman Empire.
No, Hitler thought the aryans were Created superior and through miscegenation with "lesser breeds" were becoming contaminated.
His goal was to destroy those "lesser" breeds and to selectively breed superior "Aryans"
He spelled it out rather clearly and I just don't get this revisionism.
Is it your contention that breeding is a 20th century invention, or is it that "20th century breeding" is somehow different in intent from the breeding that took place over the last, say, five to ten thousand years.
You are full of crap. The fossil record, though incomplete, is evidence that evolution is true.
Further, the fossil record indicates creationism/young earth, it almost certainly false.
THE FOSSIL RECORD IS A FACT, IT IS CREATIONISM THAT IS A RELIGION AND NOT SCIENCE.
> from chemical soup to self awareness by time and chance is not possible
Modern biology disagrees with you. Mutation, replication errors and retro-virii add information to gene codes with some regularity.
Increases in the complexity of biological systems are commonplace features of the natural, material world.
However, I've not the interest to hash through this *again,* certainly not on this thread. Check other crevo threads for further enlightenment.
Hi, I'm no authority on anything of which I speak, just of an opinion and sharing it. Man is a moral animal, unlike the rest of the"creation". Therefore man can skew the selection process into an immoral situation.
>>>He is also a purveyor of patent falsehoods regarding the Founding Fathers, using the fabricated quotes deployed by David Barton of "Wallbuilders", and making up tales out of whole cloth to support his poorly disguised contention that the U.S. was founded as a Christian theocracy. The man is a fraud.<<<
I don't recall him stating the U.S. was founded as a Christian theocracy; nor do I recall any statements regarding our Founding Fathers that can't be verified. Are you sure you have not been reading the trash of the so-called "Separation of Church and State" cult? In any case, perhaps you can fill us in (before we consider you a fraud).
20th century breeding is different from the past in that it seems to involve killing off the best, brightest, most talented and productive individuals and promoting the reproduction of pond scum. Darwinism in reverse, so to speak.
Almost indistinguishable from centuries old religious bigotry.
The fact that the book, Hitler's Secret Conversations, is used and recommended as source material by Encyclopedia Brittanica, the History Channel, academic journals, etc., constitutes evidence that the book is at least worthy of consideration.
I used the words "poorly disguised" intentionally. The notion that the U.S. was founded as a "Christian Nation" (which you have repeated in various postings) has more than simply cryptic theocratic overtones. Unless, of course, the phrase is simply meaningless.
. . . nor do I recall any statements regarding our Founding Fathers that can't be verified.
A nice example from the esteemed "Dr." Kennedy his own self:
Moreover, the Constitution is, in some measure, the product of prayer. Benjamin Franklin urged the Constitutional Convention to pray at a time when, after nearly two months, rancor and division were placing the outcome in doubt. Franklin’s request for prayer was accepted, and the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention met success on September 17, 1787.
To the contrary, as Benjamin Franklin himself duly noted, "The convention, except three or four persons, thought prayer unnecessary."
Carrier's analysis is less than convincing, especially his conclusion that "(Hitler) was unmistakably a god-fearing Christian."
Encyclopedia Britannica, during the cold war, had its articles on eastern Europe written by the Communists in power.
Now you would ask us to have the history of the Holocaust written by the perpetrator. So our choice is secret conversations as remembered by a self-serving murderer, or recorded public speeches and published writings.
The questioned that has to be asked is, why were all the public speeches and writings directed at Christians, and why did nominal Christians respond to them?
It is plausible for a psychotic leader to have a secret agenda, but why did the public respond to the public agenda? It was the public support, after all, that gave Hitler his power.
"Therefore man can skew the selection process into an immoral situation."
Nazism's murderous efforts at creating a "master race," and the attempted extermination of those determined by Nazis (and eugenics advocates) as "human weeds" is the prime, and perhaps only pertinent example of this. Darwin included bits from his nephew Galton's so-called social Darwinist theories in "The Descent Of Man," and was apparently enthused about it, from what I've read. But, social Darwinism and eugenics were discredited at some point during the twentieth century, and that point was immediately post-WWII. The timing is no coincidence, as far as any connection between Darwinism and Nazism is concerned.
Darwin's own book title shows that without Darwin there would have never been a Hilter.
The full title to Darwin's book was:
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Origin_of_Species
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