Re: EVOLUTION DARWIN AND HITLER

On Jul 5, 8:36 am, Pahu <pah...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"The evolutionary process became the arbiter of all morality. Whatever
promoted the evolutionary progress of humanity was deemed good, and
whatever hindered biological improvement was considered morally bad.
Multitudes must perish in this Malthusian struggle anyway, they
reasoned, so why not improve humanity by speeding up the destruction
of the disabled and the inferior races? According to this logic, the
extermination of individuals and races deemed inferior and "unfit" was
not only morally justified, but indeed, morally praiseworthy. Thus
Hitler-and many other Germans-perpetuated one of the most evil
programs the world has every witnessed under the delusion that
Darwinism could help us discover how to make the world
better"...Benjamin D. Wiker

It changed his life. Francis Galt6n was 37 years old in 1860 when he
read The "Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection." The book,
Galton wrote, "made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it
did in that of human thought generally."

Most notably, Darwin's book liberated him from the authority of the
Church. "Its effect was to demolish a multitude of dogmatic barriers"
and "arouse a spirit of rebellion against all ancient authorities..."

"Judicious Marriages"

After reading Origin, which is subtitled, "The Preservation of
Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life," Galton reasoned that a
better breed of men could be produced with proper guidance and
"judicious marriages." He wrote m his book, "Hereditary Genius," that
"it would be quite practicable to produce a highly-gifted race of men
by judicious marriages during several consecutive generations."

Darwin congratulated Galton on the pub1ication of "Hereditary Genius,"
telling his younger cousin in a letter that, "I do not think I ever in
all my life read anything more interesting and original."

While Darwin did not distance himself from cousin Galton, contemporary
apologists of Darwin do. They seek to distinguish Darwin from those
who made unseemly social application of his ideas.

Evolutionist Niles Eldredge thinks that "Darwin would cringe at some
of the movements undertaken in his name." Eldredge does acknowledges
that "social Darwinism," which he regards as an illegitimate offspring
of Darwin's theory, "has given us the eugenics movement and some of
its darker outgrowths, such as the genocidal practices of the Nazis in
World War II-where eugenics was invoked as a scientific rationale to
go along with whatever other 'reasons' Hitler and his fellow Nazis had
for the Holocaust."

Galton coined the term "eugenics" (well born) in 1883, and campaigned
extensively for socially engineered marriages, which would over
several generations produce, he thought, a highly gifted race of
people. Galton wanted to limit marriage to the union of well-born
partners and prohibit marriages of the "unfit." By so doing, Galton
thought that "what Nature does blindly, slowly, and ruthlessly, man
may do providently, quickly, and kindly."

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Well, maybe not that "kindly," as it turned" out later. Francis Ga1ton
replaced God with Darwinian Evolution and declared that there was no
need for religion, because science is a valid alternative. In so
doing, this disciple of Darwin devalued man and helped to weaken a
moral brake that could have stopped the Nazi atrocities that followed.

In his essay, "Eugenics as a Factor in Religion," Galton laid out
arguments that would lead to Nazi killings in the years to come. He
left no doubt about the link between evolution and eugenics: "The
creed of eugenics is founded upon the idea of evolution; not on a
passive form of it, but on one that can to some extent direct its own
course "

Preserving the "Favoured" Race

When Hitler came to power in 1933, he installed a dictatorship with
one agenda: enactment of his radical Nazi racial philosophy built on
Darwinian evolution. He sought, in Darwin's terms, to preserve the
"favoured" race in the struggle for survival. Brute strength and
intelligence would be the driving force of the Nazi plan.

The first task was to eliminate the weak and those with impure blood
that would corrupt the race. These included the disabled, ill, Jews,
and Gypsies. Second, the Nazis sought to expand Germany's borders in
order to achieve more living space, or "Lebensraum," to make room for
the expansion of the "favoured" race. Third, Nazis set about to
eliminate communism because of its threat to the Aryan race and
because, according to Hitler, communism was the work of Bolshevik
Jews.

The plan quickly unfolded. An order to sterilize some 400,000 Germans
was issued within five months of Hitler's rise to power. The order,
set to take effect on January 1, 1934, listed nine categories of the
unfit to be sterilized: feebleminded, schizophrenia, manic depression,
Huntington's chorea, epilepsy, hereditary body deformities, deafness,
hereditary blindness, and alcoholism. The Nuremberg Laws were passed
in l935 to prohibit marriage between Jews and Germans and to strip
Jews of their German citizenship.

The Nazis established eugenic courts to ensure that the eugenic laws
were enforced. To identify the unfit, German eugenicists compared the
individual health files of millions" of Germans with medical records
from hospitals and the National Health Service. The American firm,
IBM, aided the effort by automating a national card file system that
cross-indexed the defective.

American eugenicists celebrated the German sterilization program. A
leading U:S. eugenics publication, "Eugenical News," published an
admiring article on a German eugenics institute and extended "best
wishes" to its director "for the success of his work in his new and
favorable environment." "The New England Journal of Medicine"
editorialized in 1934 that "Germany is perhaps the most progressive
nation in restricting fecundity among the unfit:"

Eugenics in America was not a fringe movement. The U.S. Supreme Court
issued a landmark 1927 ruling that authorized the sterilization of a
"feeble minded" Virginia woman. In his majority opinion for the Court,
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote: "Three generations of imbeciles
are enough."

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Killing the Weak and Disabled

After Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, the Nazis became even more
aggressive toward the weak. Approximately 100,000 Germans, labeled
"useless eaters" by the Nazis, were killed. The victims were patients
in nursing homes and medical facilities, as well as Jewish mentally
disturbed and disabled. The Nazis ordered all of these exterminated.
Ultimately, some 11 million people (and possibly more), six million
from Jewish descent, were killed by the Nazi death machine.

Richard Weikart, author of "From Darwin to Hitler," outlines in
simplified fashion the route from Darwin to Hitler:

First, Darwinism undermined traditional morality and the value of
human life. Then, evolutionary progress became the new moral
imperative. This aided the advance of eugenics, which was overtly
founded on Darwinian principles. Some eugenicists began advocating
euthanasia and infanticide for the disabled. On a parallel track.,
some prominent Darwinists argued that human racial competition and war
are part of the Darwinian struggle for existence. Hitler imbibed these
social Darwinist ideas, blended in virulent anti-Semitism, and-there
you have it: Holocaust.

Today when evolutionists are questioned as to how Darwinian evolution
gave birth to Hitler's Nazism, they immediately want to beg the
question, answering that racism has nothing to do with science. They
are correct: Racism has nothing to do with science, but it has every
thing to do with evolution-a fact that is unavoidable.

Prophetic Passage

Geologist Adam Sedgwick, a mentor of Darwin's at Cambridge University,
took immediate issue with Darwin's "Origin" after reading it in 1859.
He told his former student that it "greatly shocked my moral taste,"
and elaborated in a passage that proved prophetic:

"There is a moral or metaphysical part of nature as well as a
physical. A man who denies this is deep in the mire of folly. Tis the
crown and glory of organic science that it does thro' final cause,
link material to moral;...You have ignored this link; and, if I do not
mistake your meaning, you have done your best in one or two pregnant
cases to break it. Were it possible (which thank God it is not) to
break it, humanity, in my mind, would suffer a damage that might
brutalize it-and sink the human race into a lower grade of degradation
than any into which it has fallen since its written records tell us of
its history."

The Darwin driven Nazi Holocaust illustrates what can happen when man
forgets and rejects God. When that happens, a vacuum is created into
which many false, foolish, and fatal ideas can come rushing in. When
He who gave mankind the true Tree of Life is rejected, error and
infamy can quickly follow.

[Adapted from "Evolution's fatal Fruit: How Darwin's Tree of. Life
Brought Death to Millions," by Tom DeRosa.]

Hitler was a Catholic.

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