8/31/2006

Hitler Used Darwinism to Justify the Holocaust

By: Cao, Filed under: Communist, Socialist & Nazi , Environmentalism , General @ 2:38 am

From Straight-Talk dot Net:

ADOLPH HITLER USED EVOLUTION AS HIS JUSTIFICATION FOR THE HOLOCAUST.

In fact, the theory of Evolution is inherently racist as compared to Christianity which seeks to break down barriers based on race- as you can see in the following bullet points.

• Planned Parenthood Federation of America (See Abortion section) was started by a racist, Margaret Sanger, who drew upon writings from socialists and eugenicists. She even published articles from Adolf Hitler’s director of eugenic sterilization, Ernst Rudin, and spawned “The Negro Project,” her strategy for eliminating the black population. In the last week of July 2002, a lawyer in Missouri filed a federal lawsuit against Planned Parenthood for their failure to fully inform women about abortion. The lawyer also agreed that PP is a racist organization that targets minority women.77

• Alfred Russell Wallace , one of the few 19th century nonracists, believed that the differences in behavior found between the black and white races, contrary to the conclusions of evolutionists around him, were because of cultural conditioning which ‘can integrate the rudest savage into our own most courtly life.19

• Today, all human beings in the world today, are classified as Homo Sapiens and scientists now admit that, biologically, there really is only one race of humans.15

• An ABC News science page stated, “More and more scientists find that the differences that set us apart are cultural, not racial. Some even say that the word ‘race’ should be abandoned because it’s meaningless.”15

• The Bible does not even use the word “race” in reference to people, but does describe all human beings as being of “one blood” (Acts 17:26)15

• Scientists found that if any two people from anywhere in the world were compared, the basic genetic differences between these two would typically be around 0.2 percent - even if they came from the same people group.15

• So-called “racial” characteristics that many think are major differences (skin color, eye shape, etc.) account for only 6 percent of this 0.2 percent variation, which amounts to a mere 0.012 percent difference generically. In other words, the so-called “racial” differences are absolutely trivial.15

• Recent I.Q. tests of people throughout the world have found that, with allowance for cultural differences, the IQ ranges of all extant identified races is extremely close. The pygmy population of Africa, supposedly the most backward race extant today, test close to average when acclimated to Western life. Few differences are found between the second and third generation pygmies living in large Australian cities who are acclimated to the established European population.19

• It is now widely accepted that, given equality of background and similarity of experiences, blacks as a whole closely equal whites in across the-board performance. This confirms prominent anthropologist, Ruth Benedict’s early conclusion that “the most careful investigation” shows there is no significant difference between the scores of blacks and whites, even though it is difficult to control for the accumulative effects of deprivation.19

• Most studies also find that Orientals and Jews score about ten points higher than Europeans. Reasons other than innate differences are often found to account for this difference, and few scientists now accept the view that genetic differences can account for the level found.19

• Recently, in Louisiana, African American State Representative Sharon Weston Broome charged that, “Darwin’s ideas on how humans evolved are racist and the key reason for race problems [and] provide the main rationale for racism.” As Broome logically concluded, “If evolution has provided the main rationale for racism, and we are teaching our children evolution in schools, then correspondingly we are teaching them racist principles.”8

See the references here.

8 “Charles Darwin: In Trouble,” The Wallbuilder Report, Spring 2002, PO Box 397, Aledo, TX 76008
19 “Darwinism, Evolution, and Racism,” Dr. Jerry Bergman
15 “Creationists Link Evolution to Racism,” Impact, Aug 2000, Coral Ridge Ministries, Fort Lauderdale, FL
77 “Racism and Planned Parenthood,” Sandy Rios, Aug 5, 2002 FYI, Concerned Women for America, Washington, DC

Darwin’s idea that evolution means “the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life” eventually led to Nazism and the Jewish holocaust - even though Darwin himself would have been appalled at the thought.”19

Sir Arthur Keith wrote: “The leader of Germany is an evolutionist, not only in theory, but, as millions know to their cost, in the rigor of its practice. For him, the ‘national front’ of Europe is also the ‘evolutionary front;’ he regards himself, and is regarded, as the incarnation of the will of Germany, the purpose of that will being to guide the evolutionary destiny of its people.”59 and “Christianity makes no distinction of race or of color; it seeks to break down all racial barriers. In this respect the hand of Christianity is against that of Nature, for are not the races of mankind the evolutionary harvest which Nature has toiled through long ages to produce?”19

In Mein Kampf, Hitler used the German word for evolution (Entwicklung) many times, citing “lower human types.” He criticized the Jews for bringing “Negroes into the Rhineland” with the aim of “ruining the white race by the necessarily resulting ization.” He spoke of “Monstrosities halfway between man and ape” and lamented the fact of Christians going to “Central Africa” to set up “Negro missions,” resulting in the turning of “healthy . . . human beings into a rotten brood of s.” In his chapter entitled “Nation and Race,” he said, “The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel, but he, after all, is only a weak and limited man; for if this law did not prevail, any conceivable higher development (Hoherentwicklung) of organic living beings would be unthinkable.” A few pages later, he said, “Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.”59

The success in breeding cattle, dogs and other animals with certain desired characteristics gave empirical support to the concept of racial breeding as advocated by eugenicists and later Hitler and others.19

Hitler exterminated over 273,000 people even before the Holocaust! “The first to be killed were the aged [those who are an economic burden, who detract from the happiness of society as a whole], the infirm, the senile, the mentally retarded, and defective children [that included epileptics]. Then there were WW I veterans - amputees - still in hospitals. Their reward for giving an arm or leg for Germany was extermination as ‘undesirable.’ Even bed wetters and children with badly modeled ears were put to death - all part of the euthanasia project of Germany.”33

Instead of letting chance factors dominate reproduction decisions, Hitler proposed that the scientists use the power of the state to influence these decisions so that the gene pool would shift to what “informed conclusions” concluded was the desired direction. Consequently, Hitler encouraged those individuals that he perceived as having Aryan traits to mate, and discouraged “interbreeding,” supposing that this policy would gradually cause the Aryan race to evolve “upward”. He believed that the Nazi race programs would further evolution by intelligently deciding which traits were not beneficial, and preventing those with them from reproducing.19

An important argument that Hitler used to support his programs of racial genocide of the Jews, Blacks and other groups was that they were genetically “inferior” and that their interbreeding with the superior Aryan race would adversely affect the latter’s gene pool, polluting it, and lowering the overall quality of the “pure race.”19

“From the ‘Preservation of favored races in the struggle for life’ [that is, Darwin ’s subtitle to Origin of Species] it was a short step to the preservation of favored individuals, classes or nations - and from their preservation to their glorification . . . Thus, it has become a portmunteau of nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and dictatorship, of the cults of the hero, the superman, and the master race . . . recent expressions of this philosophy, such as Mein Kampf are, unhappily, too familiar to require exposition here.” - Gertrude Himmelfarb, Social Darwinism in American Thought, 1962

See the references here.

19 “Darwinism, Evolution, and Racism,” Dr. Jerry Bergman
33 “All They That Hate Me Love Death,” Sermon Transcript by Dr. D. James Kennedy, Coral Ridge Ministries, Fort Lauderdale, FL
59 “Ten Questions to Ask Your Biology Teacher,” Sept/Oct 2001, Family Voice, Concerned Women for America, Washington, DC. Also on the web

6 Responses to “Hitler Used Darwinism to Justify the Holocaust”

  1. Amy Proctor Says:

    Cao, I wrote a long entry under the other thread about Darwinism that seems not to be there now. Rats.

    Can you send me your e-mail? I don’t see it listed anywhere on your blog. Sorry I’ve lost it!

    :)

  2. Cao Says:

    I’m sorry. This blog sometimes EATS COMMMENTS!

    I sent you an email, Amy~

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