[EternalVigilance]

?For example, although it's not the intent of the passage in question, Darwin notes as an apparently established fact that the "civilized races" are superior, in an evolutionary sense, to "the savage races." This was simply a natural process, to which humans are subject in the same manner as, say, a finch.

Are you agreeing with such racist sentiments?

[r9etb]

Are you agreeing with such racist sentiments?

Most assuredly not!!! The topic of debate, however, is that people have used Darwin's ideas to promote such racist sentiments. My point in the text you highlighted was that Darwin himself placed humans along an evolutionary continuum. Even if Darwin himself was not racist (I don't know, either way), the underlying argument in that passage has definite racist application. That's all I was trying to show.