Comments on: Darwin must not be Associated with Hitler

By: kerwin_brown

kerwin_brown — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:01:31 +0000

If you read the rest of the part I cited but did not mention here, he mentions Negroes and Europeans and you can guess which ones he felt were superior.

He also did support his cousin Francis Galton who first advanced the eugenics theory. There will also a lot of the Darwin family that were involved with the eugenics movement.

By: apostle

apostle — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:39:23 +0000

You could make a caser for the Hitler /Darwin connection very easily. The Manson/Bible connection is just a vain attempt at turning the tables, and a blatant misinterpretation of the Bible. But its hard NOT to read Darwin’s theory and not think that a superior race was implied.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:19:51 +0000

The only thing I understand about making this conection is that the philosphies of Darwin could have or did inspire Hitler. The same could be said of the Bible inspiring Charles Manson. While both are most likely true, many would percieve that saying it is an attempt to demonize the philosphy that inspired. This just isn’t the case.

By: kerwin_brown

kerwin_brown — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:46:01 +0000

I don’t believe that Charles Darwin would have backed up Hitler’s version of eugenics but at least some of his words would seem to do so. He wrote ” the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world.” in his Decent of Man parper. It well may have been an observation instead of advice but a lot of people would look at it an OK because it is just natural to exterminate those less evolved than you.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 13:10:04 +0000

I will not get into the Hitler/Darwin connection, but if believing in an intelligent creator makes me a wingnut then so be it. I find it much more difficult to believe in some random, meaningless development of life from non-living things than to believe intelligent life was born from intelligence.

By: gfactor

gfactor — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:50:01 +0000

“And that eugenics (deliberate selection) is a pretty obvious extension of Darwin’s ideas about natural selection should not strain too many brains.”

Actually, its not. Deliberate selection implies a creator, an intelligence. Thats what the wingnuts want. What Darwin argues for is natural selection.

By: kerwin_brown

kerwin_brown — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 10:52:48 +0000

A Jew may be an atheist and still refer to them selves as a Jew because it also refers to race as well as religion. Even if Abe Forman is a religious Jew there are at least four different sects of which one basically believes God is a force and not an individual. It is an idea that seems to be common in those who claim to Christians as well.