Evolutionist Admits Darwin’s Connection to Racism

Creation Evolution Headlines ^ | 2-26-2020 | Jerry Bergman, PhD

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Evolutionist Admits Darwin’s Connection to Racism

February 26, 2020 | Jerry Bergman

Finally, Some Honesty about Darwin’s Direct Connection to Racism: One AAAS Scientist Admits Evolution’s Sordid Past

by Jerry Bergman, PhD

Although often ignored, some science organizations that embrace evolution acknowledge the close causative connection between Darwinism and racism.

""...Despite some inaccuracies and fierce opposition, Darwin’s blend of novel hypotheses … and good rhetoric transformed the scientific world within a few decades. By the late-nineteenth century …scientific racism that had made polygenism so popular was soon drawing people to a new cause: eugenics.""

So says John P. Slattery, Ph.D., a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS, the most prestigious science body in the U.S.). In his essay this month in Commonweal, he admits that—despite its recent improvement in the area of race—the record of Darwinian

""...science has not always aligned so well with modern values of equality and the common good. The history of science includes not only racial hierarchies, but also Western cultural supremacy, [and] the militarization of scientific knowledge.[1]""

[TexasGator]

Slattery ... ties to SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER

[VanShuyten]

Lets not forget all those devout Christians who racialized slavery hundreds of years before Darwin was born.

[Secret Agent Man]

There is something to the bell curve, it’s real.

[jonrick46]

Actually, it is the racist dumb-asses who used Darwinism for their eugenics bull crap they used to justify their extermination of “unfit” human beings. The Democrats have this as their legacy and everyone is sweeping this part of their history under the rug with Orwellian New Speak.

[GJones2]

>> Charles Darwin on Africans "Since the dawn of history the Negro...[series of negative remarks]" <<

Though nearly everyone in the 19th century held ideas consisted racist now, Darwin didn't say that. Those lines are from a book called "The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan".

[TexasGator]

"Nine months ago, as if in response to the groundswell, this nation of immigrants, descendents of slaves, descendents of those that owned slaves, and descendents of the aboriginal tribes voted a man into office with clear ties to neo-Nazi and other racist groups. Catholics and Protestants together voted him into office. Mostly white people. Mostly men."

[TexasGator]

“Whenever Darwin is criticized on FR, there is a certain derangement syndrome that takes hold on many brains here.”

Your dude, Slattery, has a serious case of TDS!

[GJones2]

“consisted” — I meant “considered”

[TexasGator]

“Whenever Darwin is criticized on FR, there is a certain derangement syndrome that takes hold on many brains here.”

Apparently, your dude hates America!

the most potent application of eugenics was in the United States, whose ruling class held tightly to racism….

[alstewartfan]

You are correct. But you can blame him for coming up with a clever yet absurd theory.
Logically, however, Hitler and Stalin et al accepted Darwin’s theory. When God is eliminated, and Darwinism does that, all horrors are possible. There is no accountability.

[alstewartfan]

Yes, that ruling class is aka the DEMOCRAT Party.

[alstewartfan]

Unknown to this day.

[JayAr36]

Evolutionist Admits Darwin’s Connection to Racism

Lets see just how can I get my name in print this week. Maybe if I dig up someone dead for decades will do it.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"Hitler and Stalin et al accepted Darwin’s theory"

It is more accurate to say Hitler misused Darwin's theory. Social Darwinism was popular in Germany at the time, an offshoot of evolution that advocated the dominance of society's strong over the weak. So the Nazis of course considered themselves the "strong", and everyone else the "weak". But Darwin didn't say it is the strong that survive, it is those most able to adapt. In any case, you're arguing that correlation equals causation when you say Hitler believed in evolution, therefore evolution is evil.

[semimojo]

When God is eliminated, and Darwinism does that, all horrors are possible.

As I said earlier, best we shield our children from knowledge of the natural world.

[alstewartfan]

I said nothing of the kind.

[alstewartfan]

There is not one shred of evidence that non-life to paramecium to man is true. How you extrapolate your comment from what I said is unfathomable.

[semimojo]

There is not one shred of evidence that non-life to paramecium to man is true. How you extrapolate your comment from what I said is unfathomable.

I know you often post on crevo topics so I know you realize Darwin's theory doesn't address abiogenesis.

Can you fathom a straw man?

[Telepathic Intruder]

Sorry, I meant implied. But evolution itself is only a theory which explains speciation through the long-term effect of adaption. It has nothing to do with the Social Darwinist misinterpretation that was sometimes used for nefarious political purposes.

[UNGN]

Three years and six days ago, an unarmed young black man named Michael Brown was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. In the aftermath of the unrest that followed the criminal act of injustice on the part of the police department, the United States has seen the largest groundswell of anti-racist sentiment in the last few decades under the guise of #BlackLivesMatter and similar movements.

Is this satire? Michael Brown was a thug who tried to take a cops gun, then ran towards him when he was shot (per the black witnesses who weren't involved in Brown's strong arm robbery before he was shot).

Followers of Black lives matter were involved in at least 10 innocent cop murders including 5 in Dallas.

Saying BLM is "anti-racist?" is Delusional. Its was Anti-cop.