No creator, - Nazism and Eugenics -Dawkins Part 4

'My Hero.' Richard Dawkins on Charles Darwin
Interviewed by Paula Kirby
Filmed at Cheltenham Science Festival, 4 June 2008

Richard Dawkins is one of Britain's foremost scientists. A zoologist and fellow of New College, Oxford, he now holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science. He is the author of best selling books including The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, The Extended Phenotype and most recently The God Delusion.

He has presented television documentaries for Channel 4 including The Root of All Evil? and The Enemies of Reason. He is well known for his atheism and his forthright criticism of religious doctrine. In the forthcoming Channel 4 series Dawkins on Darwin he argues that Darwinism provides a more thrilling view of creation than any religion.

The following clips were filmed in front of a live audience at Cheltenham Science Festival. Richard Dawkins provides a gripping insight into Darwin's theory of evolution and all that it implies.

Dawinks explains that Hitler's Nazism and Eugenic movement were not a result of Darwinism. Darwinian theory was applied to nature while nazism and Eugenics arose as a results of selective breedig of animals which was applied to specifically humans intended on creating a PURE Human breed.

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Molleen Matsumura:

In my view, humanism relies on reason and compassion. Reason guides our attempt to understand the world about us. Both reason and compassion guide our efforts to apply that knowledge ethically, to understand other people, and have ethical relationships with other people.

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Inherited desire to be nice? So if you could remove this gene physically one would lose all ability to be nice. This seems to be the only real way to prove that this proposition is true. I'm sorry but I need proof; making fun of and insulting Christians is not enough for me to be considered an unquestioned authority.

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@Kingfillins How exactly did the English translation of the Laws banning Darwin change the base meaning?

Guidelines from Der Bucherie 2:6 (1935), P279

No.6 Writings of a philosophical and social nature whose content deals with the false scientific enlightenment of primitive Darwinism and Monism (H�ckel).

6. Schriften weltanschaulichen und lebenskundlichen Charakters, deren Inhalt die falsche naturwissenschaftliche Aufkl�rung eines primitiven Darwinismus und Monismus ist (H�ckel).

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@quagmire444 Perhaps you could supply us with this evidence that Hitler and the Nazis showed great interest in Darwin, and perhaps you can't.

Moses and Joshua were very interested in genocide, but I don't think they read Darwin.

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@quagmire444 The Nazis banned teaching of Darwin.

Guidelines from Der Bucherie 2:6 (1935), P279

No.6 Writings of a philosophical and social nature whose content deals with the false scientific enlightenment of primitive Darwinism and Monism (H�ckel).

6. Schriften weltanschaulichen und lebenskundlichen Charakters, deren Inhalt die falsche naturwissenschaftliche Aufkl�rung eines primitiven Darwinismus und Monismus ist (H�ckel).

The didn't accept Darwin at all.

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@quagmire444 Quotes by Hitler showing that he did not accept Darwinian macroevolution:

"The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger

will retain the character of a tiger". - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf,

vol. i, ch. xi

"...nowhere inside a kind

shows such a development as the breadth of the jump , as Man must supposedly

have made, if he has developed from an ape-like state to what he is today."-

26 July 1942 in 'Hitler's Table Talk'

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@dimthelight Would you require the name of the German Law that was to be enforced for the gassing of people to happen too?

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@S24995 Even that is misleading. The crocodile species hasn't adapted in millions of years.

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@S24995 Even that is misleading. Organisms don't evolve. Species do.