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I basically quit discussing evolution vs. creation years ago. I believe the Darwinists use this as a red herring to avoid the discussion of eugenics.

Prior to the Scopes Trial, eugenics was what the Darwins were best known for; however, after World War II there seems to have been a push to disassociate Darwinism from eugenics and pretend that all they ever cared about was evolution.

The truth is that over one billion people have died in the past century as a direct result of Darwinist eugenics.

"The truth is that over one billion people have died in the past century as a direct result of Darwinist eugenics"

I reject this premise. You cannot lump all forms of eugenic thought into a single bag and hang that bag around the neck of Darwin. Darwin did not invent Natural Selection or attempt to apply its principles in an unnatural means to alter the composition of the human race. There are numerous examples of applied eugenics that predate Charles Darwin by thousands of years. If he could have implemented his theory ex post facto he really would have been something special.

Since you have linked the actions of Hitler, Mao and Stalin to Darwin would you also link the US' manifest destiny policy to Darwin? It was after all introduced in 1839? How about the prohibition in Leviticus against the taking of a non-Jewish wife while condoning the marriage of ones cousin? Did Gods command to Joshua to kill the Canaanites constitute applied eugenics of the type you ascribe to Darwin? Did the Spartan society rely on Darwinism or only on practices later identified by Darwin's relatives? Did the Roman law requiring that a deformed child be put to death require Darwin's theories as an antecedent? Could the European feudal system which reached it apex with the Hapsburg dynasty have been a pre-Darwinian attempt at applied eugenics? I could go on in a seemingly endless list of examples, but I think these make my point.

"The truth is that over one billion people have died in the past century as a direct result of Darwinist eugenics."

Where did you get the number of deaths from? I have see the 1 billion number repeated many times here on FR, but could never validate it. In fact it is more than 5X the total number of deaths from all of the Wars, Massacres and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century combined.

http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/war-1900.htm