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Reply to "Does Darwinism Promote Racism?"

Hi Miamizsun,

The information below does not disagree with what you posted -- but, does expand upon it.

Two excerpts from http://backwaterreport.com/?p=888 :

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Although Darwin opposed slavery, he firmly believed that the evolutionary process had created superior and inferior races. He maintained in Descent of Man that human intellectual development was the product of natural selection and that natural selection had produced significant differences in the mental faculties of “men of distinct races.” [See Darwin, Descent (1871), vol. I, pp.109-110, 160, 201, 216.] In the same book, Darwin disparaged blacks and observed that the break in evolutionary history between apes and humans fell “between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla,” indicating that he considered blacks the humans that were the most ape-like. [Darwin, Descent (1871), vol. I, p. 201] Darwin also predicted that “[a]t some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races.” [Darwin, Descent (1871), vol. I, p. 201.] The racist cast of Darwin’s thought is difficult to deny.

Eugenics, which was directly influenced by Darwinism took root in America in the early twentieth century — some 33 states adopted forced sterilization programs to prevent the “feeble-minded” and other “defectives” from reproducing. Perhaps the leading lady of the Eugenics movement was the angel of death herself, 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. She believed in removing what she called “the dead weight of human waste.”

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Miami, I am not trying to discredit Darwin; only showing a negative which comes from Darwinism and his evolutionary teachings. By far, I am not the first to notice this.

God bless, have a wonderful, blessed day,

Bill

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