Posted on 03/09/2022 1:32:17 AM PST by Cronos
Was Charles Darwin a Darwinist?
...“With savages,” Darwin
the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed. The aid we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy.
...Here is Hitler, for instance, speaking at Nuremberg in 1933: “The gulf between the lowest creature which can still be styled man and our highest races is greater than that between the lowest type of man and the highest ape.”
...Charles Darwin himself would almost certainly not have endorsed the views of many of his spiritual heirs today that the biblical story of creation and the evolution of the physical universe are mutually exclusive rather than twin manifestations of a divine act of self-revelation. It is a fallacy that never fails to strike me when I come to attend services in the nave of Westminster Abbey, just a few feet away from where Darwin lies buried.
(Excerpt) Read more at americamagazine.org ...
I am aware of Darwin’s deathbed conversion.
I don’t think he’s been misinterpreted at all, but I don’t think his intent was what liberals use his work for.
However, evolutionists simply took his conclusions under an unaccountae value system by extremely rational men who rightly concluded that, in a godless universe, that it was their obligation to bring man to his most developed point.
liberals point to evolution, and darwin, while also going ape crazy when species go extinct because they were not fit.
It’s a mental disorder.
His argument here is much like that used by at least some of the eugenicists.
That modernity has broken natural selection by allowing the unfit to breed.
I read the whole article.
‘See there’s a statue to Darwin that needs tearing down?
j/k
Social Darwinism needs more mention here.
The definition of “fitness” was amended because it was clear with humans that anyone could breed; producing “viable offspring” was modified to producing “viable grandchildren” because it was understood there was nothing viable about breeding children who would die in urban violence, police encounters, and drug ODs.
The Nazis’ use of social Darwinism is a good example of bad science. Darwin never said that the strongest survive, only those that are most able to adapt. The Nazis got a lot of things wrong because they had weird ideas.
Social Darwinists invariably believe that they are the highest form of evolved man, and that they have the right to decide who must be eliminated, not by smallpox, poverty, or natural disasters, but by deliberate policies instituted by them. Darwin would probably have disowned them.
For all the noise generated by all those forms of death, they amount to a very small portion of the population. Its really a very low rate of casualties from violence. I doubt that has a discernable effect on survival and subsequent breeding.
I’ll gladly read Darwin (again), but not this article.
The presumptuous headline alone is enough reason not to.
Yup, they worry about losing one and climate change destroying life on this planet, and yet fail to acknowledge that life would evolve and adapt to the new conditions to replace that which is lost.
‘No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. ‘
He’s comparing apples to oranges and is entirely unaware of it. Men are made in the image of God and have an immortal soul. Their value and usefulness to society aren’t degraded by physical infirmity. Animals have a function in nature and are a resource. That’s about it.
The Bell Curve book says the government is paying the unfit to reproduce. LBJ and the Great Society. Destruction of the inner city. Rat sinks of Democrat voter base.
It’s how I view democrats. /spit
Is it the pussification of America of which you speak?
Darwin, Freud, etc... All a bunch of racist colonialist pseudo-scientists of the day who transformed medicine into the dictat of Covid we see today.
Darwin like Freud was ideological, perverting science to a level of religion.
Science should never be used to meddle in people’s lives, but to create thought.
An interesting read
That flies into the face of a natural selection belief that expects a gradual speciation across billions of years, not just a million years (making the math off by a factor of a thousand). It was already known a century and a half ago (Darwin's day) and Darwin knew about it. In his book he says that eventually archaeology will improve, find more evidence further back in time that the phyla had originated long before what was thought in Darwin's day, and prove his belief in natural selection correct. He even says that if it's not the case, if that the archaeological record shows the Cambrian Explosion to be even more profound that was believed in his time, then we should shelve his idea as one that's probably not correct. He called it a "manifest objection to my theory".
The Cambrian Explosion is more profound that thought a century and a half ago. Darwin's own book says to ditch his idea of natural selection now that we have more knowledge from the 150 years of archeological discoveries.
—> That modernity has broken natural selection by allowing the unfit to breed.
Like attorneys!
What’s up with that??!
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