 What opened the door to Germany's Nazi leader's tragic attempt to engineer a master race and exterminate millions in the Holocaust? Who was Charles Darwin, and how does his theory of evolution impact mankind? In this episode of Origins, we'll examine the life of Charles Darwin and demonstrate how the seeds of the Holocaust were planted in Hitler's mind by Darwin's theory. Coming up on today's edition of Origins, Aryan Darwinism with Dr. Brad Harib. Hello and welcome to Origins. I'm Ray Hypal. It's an honor to be your host today. During this program, we showcase interesting guests who present evidence from science, along with other important facts, validating the truth of creation and the accuracy of the Bible. Today's guest, Dr. Brad Harib, holds a degree in biology and a doctorate degree in anatomy and neurobiology from the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee. Currently, he serves as the executive director of Focus Press and co-editor of Think Magazine. Dr. Harib travels the world speaking on Christian evidences, fortifying the family, and cultural apologetics. Welcome to the program, Brad. Hey, it's great to be here again, Ray. We're glad we can have you. Today, we're going to be looking at Aryan Darwinism. I've heard of Aryanism and I've heard of Darwinism, but what are we doing here? Exactly. Why would we put those two together? When I say the words, the Holocaust, what does that bring to mind to you? Just Hitler and Nazi Germany and concentration camps. Absolutely. You know, Adolf Hitler, concentration camps, the atrocities that happened over there. My wife and I, we actually were in Dachau not too long ago and got to tour that particular concentration camp, got to stare into those ovens. What most people don't think about when you mention the Holocaust is a guy by the name of Charles Darwin. We're going to talk a little bit today about how he played a major role in that atrocity. Again, Hitler made a comment. He said, if you tell a big enough lie, tell it frequently enough, it will be believed. And indeed, that's what's happened with this whole evolutionary theory. Charles Darwin, we know he was born February the 12th, 1809. Just a little bit of trivia. Do you know who else was born on that particular day? I do not. Okay, Abraham Lincoln. Wow. Same exact day as Charles Darwin. And it's just interesting to me because they definitely took two different roads. Definitely remembered for two different things. Charles Darwin was born in England. Mother died when he was eight years old. So he was primarily raised by his father. His father was a very well known physician over there in London area. His grandfather was also a physician. And so you can imagine what Charles Darwin was expected to be. Of course, another physician. He was expected to follow in their footsteps. At the tender age of 16, they sent him off to Cambridge where he found out he wasn't quite cut out for medicine. Did not like the sight of blood, did not like the practice. This was back before the days of anesthesia. So if you think about, you know, part of a medical student's job was to hold down a patient as they're cutting them open. A pretty ghastly, grisly kind of situation. He lets his dad know this is not going to work out. And his dad thinks about it and says, hey, there's one occupation that realistically would kind of save the family name. And that's if you were called into the ministry. And so a couple of years later, he packed him up. He sent him off to Cambridge where he received his only degree in of all things theology. Wow. Not a lot of people would expect that. I mean, here you've got a father of science. Exactly. Exactly. A guy who the world elevates as one of the greatest scientists of all time. And yet his only degree actually was in Bible. While he was there, while he was at Cambridge, he met a gentleman by the name of Sir John Stevens Henslow. Henslow was one of his professors. He was also a botanist. And what he would do, he would take Charles Darwin out on hikes. They would go out on walks together, collecting different plants, different species. And Henslow realized Charles Darwin's got a knack for this. He ended up getting Charles Darwin a job. So the year that he graduated, it was supposed to be a volunteer job on a boat that was going to go all the way around the planet in two years. That journey actually ended up lasting five years. You may have heard of the HMS Beagle. Yes. I want to go up to the screen and talk a little bit about what Darwin discovered on that particular journey. It was supposed to last again just two years, ended up lasting five. And when you read his autobiography, you learn a couple of things. Number one, you learn that Charles Darwin was very prone to seasickness. He actually spent a great deal of time in the bottom of that boat throwing up. We also learned he had a pretty good knack for collecting things. He was a good naturalist. And so what he would do each time they made port, he would jump off, he would collect plants, animals, send them back to England. He made his way down around the southern tip of South America. They came up the coast. They got to Ecuador. They headed out and about 500 miles off the coast of Ecuador, they hit a group of islands called the Galapagos Islands. And it was here really that Charles Darwin's thinking took a change. 14 different islands set right around the equator. He writes in his autobiography about basically it was like stepping back in time. He describes it as the pre-flood world. Now a couple of years ago I had the opportunity to kind of follow in his footsteps. We took a camera crew there. We filmed a documentary. And it is entirely unique. There are things that you see there that you will only see in the Galapagos Islands. They've got those massive tortoises that you can quite literally in some cases ride. They're big enough. You see things like the blue-footed boobies. You see these massive iguanas. In fact, on one occasion we were filming down at the beach. There was a trail in the sand. Now this is about five o'clock in the morning. Me and the camera guy see this trail and we thought, I wonder what made that. And we followed it up over the dune. We faced a face with one of these creatures about six foot long. Thankfully we learned later that they were vegetarian. Didn't know that at the time. But he also saw finches. While we were there we saw several different ones. Charles Darwin saw 14 different finches. Collected some. Sent them back to England. He quite literally didn't think a whole lot more about them until he got back to his desk. He's unwrapping everything. He gets to these finches and he thinks to himself, surely God didn't put 14 different finches on these islands. Surely what happened was an original pair either got blown by a storm to one of the islands or maybe they rode on a ship. And from that pair they mated and we got all these different types. As you can see from the screen you've got some that have very, very narrow beaks. Others that have got very, very thick beaks. And Darwin's hypothesis was these all had to come from this original pair. So in his notes he actually drew this branching diagram. He thought, yeah, this makes sense. Original pair, everything came from that. Now had he stopped right here he probably would have been okay. You'll notice at the top he says the words I think. Had he stopped right here probably would have been okay. The problem is he took this one branching diagram. He placed that on what we today call the evolutionary tree of life. And he decided maybe everything came from a common ancestor. Something we know today is absolutely false. We do these often times in biology labs. You see them in textbooks. Basically communicating this idea that there was an original amoeba-like creature, single-cell that in and of itself came from some non-living source. So if you picture in your mind kind of that amoeba-like creature then giving rise to multi-cellular creatures and eventually all the way on up to man today. The first point I would point out about that is that means evolution is working backwards. And by that I mean we're going from simple to complex. Laws of thermodynamics are saying no, no, no, everything goes towards disorder, towards chaos. We don't get more complex, we get less complex. My tool cabinet would prove that. Every time I go in it, it's messy, it never cleans itself. Absolutely, absolutely. This is what Charles Darwin proposed. So we see in textbooks this idea evolutionary tree of life. Now I want to point out had he stopped with just that one branch with Finches, he would have been probably right. We do know today micro-evolution does happen. And by that I mean you can get small changes within limited parameters. So on the screen we've got all kinds of different types of dogs that probably came from an ancestral dog kind of wolf-like creature. Today we're breeding dogs for every kind of trait you can imagine. Sporting dogs, short hair, long hair, miniature. But at the end of the day we know when you made a dog you still get just a dog. You don't get a fern or a rhinoceros or you get a dog. Micro-evolution we know does happen. Charles Darwin took his one branch and he converted it over to an entire tree, full of branches, which would then mean the dogs had to come from something else, something we know is not true. If I were to take anything on this particular tree, whether it be horses or lions and we say, okay, we've got different types of cats. We've got cougars and tigers and panthers. But when you breed in the cat family you still only get a cat. You don't get a dinosaur or a bird or a lizard. You just get a cat. All of this, by the way, leaves out one very interesting portion of God's creation. If you look at this particular evolutionary tree of life, you'll notice there are no plants. The reason being they don't quite understand how plants would fit into this, especially since plants are able to create their own food. We know photosynthesis, they take in sunlight. They create their own food. On the other hand, we have to go and get our food. And yet, all of this, they would say, came from a common ancestor. Darwin's theory basically was this. Surely everything came from a common ancestor. And yet, when we really look at the truth, when we look at what evidence we've got today, it's not that there's missing links. The entire tree, the entire chain is missing today. In his particular book, he wrote the origin of species by means of natural selection or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life. Ray, I suspect you've heard about his book, The Origin of Species. He wrote that in 1859. What I suspect you may not be as familiar with is the full title. Yeah, it's that interesting. There are so many people again today that would really love Darwin and love the idea that he got rid of God or the need for God, but they wouldn't like the idea of a preservation of favored races. Favored races in the struggle for life. Charles Darwin most definitely believed that light-skinned people were further evolved than darker-skinned people, and he believed in this concept of favored races. In fact, in his second book, The Descent of Man, he goes on to say this, at some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world. Notice this part, the savage races. He basically believed during his lifetime that there were people groups on this planet who were, to use his own word, savage or inferior. Brad, hold that thought. We need to take a break. 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We're talking to Dr. Brad Herob, who's been sharing about Aryan Darwinism. Brad, we've covered Darwinism pretty good. I suspect we're ready to make that turn into Aryanism. Absolutely. Let's talk a little bit about how Charles Darwin played a role in the Holocaust. When you look at Hitler's book, his Mein Kempf, he says in there, no more than nature desires the mating of weaker with stronger individuals, even less does she desire the blending of a higher with the lower race. He goes on to say, historical experience offers countless proofs of this. It shows with terrifying clarity that in every mingling of Aryan blood with that of lower peoples, the result was the end of the cultured people. And so basically what Hitler did was he decided, hey, there is a perfect race or a superior race, and then there's all these savage races that we need to get rid of. And so we look, for instance, at what we're going to call his hit list. At the very top you would have the Nordic, the blonde hair blue eye that he felt like, hey, this is good. These are the folks who are closest to the superior race. But then as we start to go down the list, you've got German who, they're predominantly Aryan. Then we get to the Mediterranean, he would say, yeah, okay, you still got enough in ya. Well, we're probably going to let most of you live. Slavic, he said, no, these are only half blooded. Half Aryan, half ape. You get to Oriental, he would say they had an ape preponderance. You get into black Africans, he would say those were predominantly apes. And then finally he said the Jews were close to pure ape. It's almost comical when you think about the fact that Hitler himself wasn't exactly blonde hair blue eye. And he wasn't tall either. That's right, that's right. In looking at Hitler's work, Robert Clark, he made this observation, he said Adolf Hitler's mind was captivated by evolutionary thinking, probably since the time he was a boy. Evolutionary ideas, he said, lie at the basis of all that is worst in Mein Kempf and in his public speeches. The early ape-like creatures that they would say, you know, evolved up out of Africa, they always illustrate them being darker skinned, hairy. And then it's only allegedly later that white man comes evolving out of Europe hundreds of thousands of years later. And that's exactly what Darwin actually believed. What Adolf Hitler was doing was he was trying to artificially speed up what he thought was survival of the fittest. You know, if the Aryan nation is the best, if these are the superior race, then let's get there quicker. What we know, he believed, he said, I have the right to exterminate an inferior race that breed, he said, like vermin. And so what did Adolf Hitler do? History records for us. He started loading boxcars full. And when I say boxcars, I mean like cattle cars full of people who he considered were less desirable. He would ship them off to places like Auschwitz and Dachau, where they were putting concentration camps. Some of the things that they did to these people, I don't even want to mention, they used them as human guinea pigs. They obviously exterminated them in their ovens, just atrocities that you and I can't even fathom. And we're talking about everyday people that were put through this, all because a guy said, huh, we need to exterminate those savage races out there. A couple of years ago, my family and I, we had the opportunity to go and listen to a soldier, a guy by the name of Jimmy Gentry, who was physically there the day one of the concentration camps got liberated. He was an American soldier and he was physically at the prison, helped get some of the prisoners food and taken care of them. And it was very disheartening. Listening to him tell how for 30, 40, 50 years, he wouldn't talk about it. He literally just buried the memories of everything that he had seen, all the atrocities, the people, the way they had been treated. And finally, somebody tracked him down. They realized he was in this particular Army troop and that they were there on the day they were liberated and they contacted him and said, hey, you need to be telling people about your experience. And so Jimmy Gentry finally decided, I'm going to share my story. And he said the very first place that he spoke was a college university. And during his presentation, he said one of these woke students literally stood up and said, after he explained all these horrible atrocities he'd seen, this student says, that didn't happen that way. And Jimmy Gentry said, I'm looking at a 19-year-old kid who hasn't probably ever been over to Germany tell me that what I physically experienced in helping liberate this Holocaust, he said, it didn't happen. And yet that's kind of how we're rewriting, sadly, history today. Jerry Bergman wrote a book called Hitler and the Darwinian World View in which he said this, it's estimated that 55 million people died as a result of the Nazi's war on those persons they regarded as inferior races. He goes on to say that roughly 1.1 million children were exterminated as Darwin tried to create this superior race. Sir Arthur Key said, the German Fuhrer has consistently sought to make the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution. In his book, Bergman goes on to talk about how basically this program was specifically designed from looking at evolution and it was collectively known today as the Holocaust. Not only do we think of Adolf Hitler, we also think of Charles Darwin. Ray Hitler stressed and singled out the idea of biological evolution as one of the most forceful weapons against traditional religion. My message to Christians out there, what everyone out there is, we need to speak up and be unified. We need to realize what this theory really teaches. Romans chapter 12 verses 4 and 5 reminds us that we're all parts of the body. We look at 1 Peter chapter 3 verse 8. Finally, all of you be of one mind having compassion for one another. Love as brothers, be tenderhearted, be courteous. And then Acts chapter 4 verse 32. The congregation of those who believed were of one heart and soul, not one of them claimed that anything belonging to him was his own, but they had all things in common, all common property to them. Christians today, now more than ever, really need to think about what is being talked to the hearts and minds of our kids and we need to be unified. Thanks again for being part of the program, Brad. Absolutely. And thank you for being part of the show today. You know one of the most beloved heroes of today's secular society is Charles Darwin, the man who got rid of the need for God as the ultimate creator of man and of all things. What our society does not know or simply chooses to deny is that Darwin and his immediate colleagues and successors were prejudicial racists who believed all non-Aryans would one day need to be exterminated. Rejecting God, his wisdom became foolishness and evil. It just goes to show you that we know what the Bible says is true and the proof is all around you. If you enjoy Origins, we sure could use your help to keep this Creation Television program on the air. Your support, both prayerfully and financially, make a big impact. So let's work together to reveal how awesome our Creator truly is and we'll see you next time on Origins. Thank you for watching this edition of Origins. 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