[gore3000]

Darwin was insightful enough to realize that the laws of inheritance might shed a new light on this issue. Negative selection, or culling of human disease used to be a goal until it was realized that rare diseases are so because they are genetically non-dominant.

I do not think he was being insightful at all. Like in the other quotes I posted in post#754, Darwin clearly wants to help selection along and get rid of the bad genetic material by any means possible - whether it be by letting the poor starve, the weak die, inferior races be destroyed by war or whatever. Darwin was a very despicable human being and as you point out, he also was a very bad scientist. He did not discover anything and was proven wrong by science many times over later on.

[longshadow]

Darwin was a very despicable human being ....

That sounds like a "wildly elliptical" thing to say, coming from you.