From Darwin to Hitler

In his book, From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany (2004), Richard Weikart explains the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality. Darwinism played a key role in the rise not only of eugenics (a movement wanting to control human reproduction to improve the human species), but also on euthanasia, infanticide, abortion, and racial extermination. This was especially important in Germany, since Hitler built his view of ethics on Darwinian principles. Series: "Voices" [11/2004] [Humanities] [Show ID: 8987]

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[funnybot152]

scientific theory and if anything, it is much more advantageous to help the weaker members of the species because limiting gene pool size is never a good way to be able to adapt. Our abstract thought has not even fully developed, If we were really divinely created, then that leaves no real room for growth. There are things to explore, ways to become smarter, things to discover, but we can't be lazy and just attribute god to every question we have before testing out the answer for ourselves.

[Squishy Wormy]

Tell me carriebrk, do you know what endogenous retroviruses are?

[Squishy Wormy]

It's extra disgusting because it's all the more obvious that somebody has deliberately cut the quote off there, so as to give the illusion that Darwin was referring specifically to other "races" of human being, when in reality he was concurring that he believed humanity would wipe out apes - whom he predicted we were related to. (which was what really had the Christians at the time upset)

At the time the idea was unpopular, but facts and evidence are just undeniable.

[Squishy Wormy]

Evolution has made thousands of predictions about relationship between animals, for instance an elephant does not exist in Australia. The prediction is that at the time when Australia was connected to Asia (so that there was a land bridge for elephants (and thousands of other animals) to cross) elephants did not exist.

The tree of life and geology gives us a rough idea of how long elephants have been around, and the speed of Australia's drifting how long it has been apart - hey presto.

[carriebrk]

further expanding the idea to include people-which you kept insisting he wasn't talking about. So why is that statement so important and why did you accuse "leaving out information" from writing you initially denied existed? So why is "the quote mine all the more disgusting"?

[carriebrk]

"evolution predicts such things" what is that supposed to mean?