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To: Dog Gone

Where in the movie does stein say Darwinsists are Nazis? What Stein does do in the movie is, according to conservapedia, the following:

The film shows the historical connection between the ideology of “survival of the fittest” and the Holocaust. By the 1920s, German textbooks were teaching evolutionary concepts including heredity and racial hygiene. The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics was founded in 1927; in 1933, Germany passed the Law for the Protection of Heredity Health. Josef Mengele studied anthropology and paleontology and received his Ph.D. for his thesis entitled “Racial Morphological Research on the Lower Jaw Section of Four Racial Groups.” In 1937, Mengele was recommended for and received a position as a research assistant with the Third Reich Institute for Hereditary, Biology and Racial Purity at the University of Frankfort, and subsequently became the “Angel of Death” for directing the operation of gas chambers of the Holocaust and for conducting horrific medical experiments on inmates in pursuit of eugenics. Evolutionist Stephen Jay Gould admitted: “The Nazi racial hygiene program began with involuntary sterilizations and ended with genocide.”[7]

One academic says in the film, “While I would never want to indict a theory for how someone misused it ... [yet] views of human nature that lower our estimation of what we are have consequences to how people treat each other.” [8]

Steven C. Meyer said, “In Darwinism there’s a denial of any intrinsic dignity for human persons. We are the result of undirected natural processes that did not have us in mind”[9]

http://www.conservapedia.com/Expelled:_No_Intelligence_Allowed


227 posted on 04/28/2008 6:15:17 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (Asked on his deathbed why he was reading the bible, WC Fields replied "I'm looking for loopholes.")
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To: HerrBlucher

In his book “From Darwin to Hitler” Richard Weickart lists 6 key reaons why Darwinsim lead to the Holocaust:

1. Darwin argued that humans were not qualitatively different from animals. The leading Darwinist in Germany, Ernst Haeckel, attacked the “anthropocentric” view that humans are unique and special.

2. Darwin denied that humans had an immaterial soul. He and other Darwinists believed that all aspects of the human psyche, including reason, morality, aesthetics, and even religion, originated through completely natural processes.

3. Darwin and other Darwinists recognized that if morality was the product of mindless evolution, then there is no objective, fixed morality and thus no objective human rights. Darwin stated in his Autobiography that one “can have for his rule of life, as far as I can see, only to follow those impulses and instincts which are the strongest or which seem to him the best ones.”

4. Since evolution requires variation, Darwin and other early Darwinists believed in human inequality. Haeckel emphasized inequality to such as extent that he even classified human races as twelve distinct species and claimed that the lowest humans were closer to primates than to the highest humans.

5. Darwin and most Darwinists believe that humans are locked in an ineluctable struggle for existence. Darwin claimed in The Descent of Man that because of this struggle, “[a]t some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races.”

6. Darwinism overturned the Judeo-Christian view of death as an enemy, construing it instead as a beneficial engine of progress. Darwin remarked in The Origin of Species, “Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows.”


230 posted on 04/28/2008 6:19:48 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (Asked on his deathbed why he was reading the bible, WC Fields replied "I'm looking for loopholes.")
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To: HerrBlucher

Stein doesn’t say that evolutionists are Nazis. He blames Nazis on Darwin.

It’s a distinction without much of a difference, which is what he intended.

Damn that Darwin for studying finches in the Galapogos Islands. If he hadn’t done that, there would have been no Holocaust.

Jews and arabs would be holding hands and singing in the Middle East.


231 posted on 04/28/2008 6:23:24 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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