> If you argue against Darwinism/evolution, you're arguing against fact. I'm a Christian, and I see clearly that Darwin was exactly right. His theories have been confirmed a thousand ways to Sunday, and it's just sad to see that we are still denying them. Do we want to deny the existence of atoms, too?
> Hitler misused everything. Just because survival of the fittest is an undeniable fact doesn't mean that it's a normative statement (that we should practice it).
Sorry for the plagiarism: I couldn't resist. Couldn't have said it better myself, so I chose instead to say what you said again: it bears repeating and putting in bold. Well said!
The “extermination” of the native peoples can be seen as an example of the survival of the fittest, since disease carried away most of the Indians who died. But disease is also responsible for the failure of Europeans to colonize most of Africa, Certain places, such as West Africa, were known as the white man’s graveyard.