Tying Darwinism to the atrocities of the past and present...

What do Social Darwinists really think?

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“the life of a newborn baby is of less value than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee.”

—Peter Singer, Practical Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979), pp. 122-123.

It is too late to say No to Barack Obama officially until 2012...Does it seem absurd to find a link between Barack Hussein Obama and Charles Darwin?   Well, no, it is all too easy.   Darwinism is like a set of chains that shackle scientific research and it is a philosophical guillotine used to murder of hundreds of millions of innocent people!

It is not too late to say no to Social Darwinism/Eugenics/Darwinist Scientism!   By the way, I thought of a former commenter who identified himself as scohen while I was making this post.   If Darwinists had their way, scohen would have been identified as a member of an "inferior branch of humanity" as a Jew and would have been hauled of to meet his fate in a cold shower stall.   Yet he is a staunch supporter of Darwinism?  Ironically there are vast numbers of non-Aryan scientists who are part of the ruling paradigm who do not realize that, in the end, part of the goal of many a Social Darwinist is to reduce and eliminate those of his or her "race!" 

Why do environmentalists fight hard to keep third world countries locked into their ways of life?   Do you really think it is about science?  Because the largest producers of greenhouse gases by far are the oceans!  What if Social Darwinists want third world nations to continue to be plagued by disease and warfare and poverty so that they decrease in numbers proportionally?  To keep people locked into ignorance and old traditional ways long abandoned by the Western World as if they were being displayed in some kind of borderless zoo as examples of primitive humanity of the past.

Would it surprise you to learn that the elitists who rule the USA pass laws concerning health care and retirement that do not apply to them?   Would you be shocked to learn that our President and the average Congressman are millionaires?   For about 150 years now, we have been governed by a lot of folks like Julian Huxley or Nancy Pelosi or Barney Frank and far too few Ronald Reagans and Jan Brewers and Bobby Jindalls.

It should be no surprise to anyone that, when the IPCC faked charts and fudged data that the New York Times didn't want to publish the leaked CRU emails.  But state secrets?  No problem!   Leaked emails of the CRU conspiracy in concert with actual research showed us that Anthropic Global Warming is not a problem and that, once again, naturalistic materialistic scientists do not adhere to Biblical morality so to lie and fake data is not a problem for them.  It needs to be said that the banning of DDT led to the death of millions of black people...while research proved that DDT was NOT going to kill off the little birdies.   It should also be no surprise that Darwinism has led to atrocities of all sorts.  No wonder Darwin struggled with nightmares and stress-related illnesses in his later years, for he understood to some extent the hell that he had unleashed on the world.   Frankly it is hard to find any one human being within the last three hundred years who has caused more misery to the world in general than Charles Darwin.

What Hath Darwin Wrought?  is an 80-minute documentary exploring the controversial cultural implications of Darwin’s theory of evolution from the nineteenth century to today by three scientists with doctorates in at least one scientific field and degrees/experience in multiple disciplines.  The authors of this documentary?  One of the stars of the Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed movie, in my opinion, David Berlinksi and two other highly qualified scientists.   Here are their credentials as listed for the DVD.  

DAVID BERLINSKI is a Senior Fellow of Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture. Residing in Paris, he is the author of numerous books, including The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions and The Deniable Darwin. He received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Princeton University and was later a postdoctoral fellow in mathematics and molecular biology at Columbia University. He has authored works on systems analysis, differential topology, theoretical biology, analytic philosophy, and the philosophy of mathematics, as well as three novels. He has also taught philosophy, mathematics and English at Stanford, Rutgers, the City University of New York and the Université de Paris.

RICHARD WEIKART is a Professor of History at California State University, Stanislaus, and a Senior Fellow of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute. He is an expert on the historical impact of Darwinian thought in Germany. He completed his Ph.D. in modern European history at the University of Iowa, receiving the biennial prize of the Forum for History of Human Sciences for the best dissertation in that field. His books include Socialist Darwinism: Evolution in German Socialist Thought from Marx to Bernstein; From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany; and Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress. In 2008, he was featured in the documentary film Expelled with Ben Stein.

JOHN G. WEST is Associate Director of the Center for Science and Culture at Discovery Institute. Formerly the Chair of the Department of Political Science and Geography at Seattle Pacific University, Dr. West is an expert on the impact of Darwinian thought on American culture and society. His books include Darwin Day in America: How Our Politics and Culture have been Dehumanized in the Name of Science, Darwin’s Conservatives: The Misguided Quest, and (as a co-author) Traipsing into Evolution: Intelligent Design and the Kitzmiller vs. Dover Decision. Dr.West holds a Ph.D. in Government from Claremont Graduate University. He has appeared on CNN, Fox News, and C-SPAN, and he has been interviewed by Time, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and many other publications.


“All we are doing is catching up with Darwin. He showed in the nineteenth century that we are simply animals. Humans had imagined we were a separate part of creation, that there was some magical line between us and them. Darwin’s theory undermined the foundations of that entire western way of thinking about the place of our species in the universe.”
—Peter Singer, quoted in Johann Hari, “Peter Singer—An Interview,” The Independent, Jan. 7, 2004, available online at http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=410.


So often when the obvious connections between Darwinism and the atrocities perpetrated on humanity in the years since Darwinism has been popularized, the defenders of that faith rise up to supposedly "debunk" the connection with all sorts of ridiculous claims, like "Hitler was a Catholic" and "Lysenko banned a Darwin book" and so on and so forth.   Recently I have presented strong evidence that Darwin understood that his hypothesis would not only be used to try to eliminate Christianity but also to promote racism and Eugenics and genocide.  Darwinism is absolutely bad for the world!

No Christian should give so much as a thought to Darwinism.   It is bad science and  worse religion.

To tempt you to buy the DVD and especially to bolster the points I have already made, here are a few quotes for your perusal from the DVD and a few youtubes as well:

"Following are the major quotations cited in the documentary along with the sources of the quotes. Each quotation is preceded by a time code indicating at what point it appears in the documentary."

DVD CHAPTER 2: NAZIS AND DARWIN

(0:14:52) “A stronger race will supplant the weaker, since the drive for life in its final form will decimate every ridiculous fetter of the so-called ‘humaneness’ of individuals, in order to make place for the true ‘humaneness of nature,’ which destroys the weak to make place for the strong.”
—Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, Chapter IV.

(0:15:38) “If reproduction as such is limited and the number of births decreased, then the natural struggle for existence, which only allows the strongest and healthiest to survive, will be replaced by the obvious desire to save at any cost even the weakest and sickest; thereby a progeny is produced, which must become ever more miserable.”
—Adolf Hiter, Mein Kampf, Chapter IV.

(0:16:03) “In this world, the laws of natural selection apply. Nature has given the stronger and healthier the right to live. Woe betides anyone who is weak and cannot stand his ground! He cannot expect pity from anyone.”
—Hitler Speech, clip from German documentary “Hitler’s Children,” part 4 (War), starting at 12:32, available at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5298238941550391341#.

(You might wait and click that link after you finish the blogpost, it is a long one!)

(0:16:20) “We are all beings of nature, which—inasmuch as we can see it—only know one harsh law, the law that gives the right of life to the stronger and takes the life of the weaker. We humans cannot exempt ourselves from this law. … On this earth we observe the unswerving struggle of living organisms with each other. One animal lives, in that it kills the other.”
—Adolf Hitler, speech to army officers, 1942, quoted in Richard Weikart, Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), p. 4.

(0:17:08) “Our racial idea is only the ‘expression of a worldview’ that recognizes in the higher evolution of humans a divine command.”
—from “Why Are We Fighting?” (1944), Nazi propaganda pamphlet Hitler personally approved, quoted in in Richard Weikart, Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), p. 138.

(0:17:41) “The preservation and propagation, the evolution and elevating of life occurs through the struggle for existence, which every plant, every animal, every species and every genus is subjected. Even humans and the human races are subject to this struggle; it decides their value and their right to exist.”
—Rassenpolitik (Berlin, n.d.), SS pamphlet approved by both Hitler and Himmler.

(0:18:34) “At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races.”
—Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871 edition, J. Murray, London), Part I, Chapter VI, p. 201.

(0:20:27) “Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely the production of the higher animals, directly follows.”
—Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859 edition, J. Murray, London), p. 490.

(0:22:54) Adam Sedgwick was Charles Darwin’s mentor at Cambridge. On November 24, 1859, he informed Darwin that passages in Darwin’s book “greatly shocked” his “moral taste.” Sedgwick warned Darwin that his theory of evolution attempted to break the link between the moral and physical parts of nature. He wrote, “Were it possible (which thank God it is not) to break it, humanity in my mind, would suffer a damage that might brutalize it—& 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.”
—Adam Sedgwick to Charles Darwin, Nov. 24, 1859, available at http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/entry-2548.

DVD CHAPTER 3: AMERICAN EUGENICS

(0:30:39) “Nature eliminates the unfit and preserves the fit… It is man, not Nature, who has caused all the trouble. He has put his whole soul to saving the unfit....”
—Harvard biologist Edward M. East, Heredity and Human Affairs (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927), p. 311.

(0:39:32) “a good many defectives survive in modern society and are capable of reproduction who would have perished in more primitive society before reaching maturity... thus natural selection, the great law of evolution and progress, is set at naught.”
—Princeton biologist Edwin Conklin, Edwin Conklin, “Value of Negative Eugenics,” Journal of Heredity, vol VI, no. 12 (December 1915), pp. 539-540.

(0:45:44) “Birth control... is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will bcome defectives.”
—Margaret Sanger, Woman and the New Race (1920), Chapter XVIII, “The Goal,” available at http://www.bartleby.com/1013/18.html.



(0:47:02) “The most merciful thing that the large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”
—Margaret Sanger, Woman and the New Race (1920), Chapter V, “The Wickedness of Creating Large Families,” available at http://www.bartleby.com/1013/5.html.

(0:49:25) “our eyes should be opened to the terrific cost to the community of this dead weight of human waste.”
—Margaret Sanger, in Michael W. Perry, editor, The Pivot of Civilization in Historical Perspective by Margaret Sanger (Seattle: Inkling Books, 2001), p. 215.

(0:50:50) “the American public is taxed, heavily taxed, to maintain an increasing race of morons, which threatens the very foundations of our civilization.”
—Margaret Sanger, “The Function of Sterilization,” Birth Control Review (October 1926), p. 299.

(0:51:15) “You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say, ‘Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can’t justify your existence, if you’re not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you’re not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.”
—George Bernard Shaw, clip from documentary “The Soviet Story,” available at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WBRjU9P5eo&feature=related.




(0:51:59) “I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. Deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.”
—George Bernard Shaw, The Listener, Feb. 7, 1934.




DVD CHAPTER 4: MODERN EUGENICS

(1:00:14) “Natural selection’s death rate of the jungle helped to purify the primitive race by destroying the weak and permitting only the strong to live and reproduce. Eugenicists hope to arrive at the same result by the selective birth rate.”
— Lena K. Sadler, “Is the Abnormal to Become Normal?” in A Decade of Progress in Eugenics, Scientific Papers of the Third International Congress of Eugenics (Baltimore: Williams and Wilkins Co., 1934), p. 198.

(1:01:53) “the life of a newborn baby is of less value than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee.”
—Peter Singer, Practical Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979), pp. 122-123.

(1:03:04) “All we are doing is catching up with Darwin. He showed in the nineteenth century that we are simply animals. Humans had imagined we were a separate part of creation, that there was some magical line between us and them. Darwin’s theory undermined the foundations of that entire western way of thinking about the place of our species in the universe.”
—Peter Singer, quoted in Johann Hari, “Peter Singer—An Interview,” The Independent, Jan. 7, 2004, available online at http://www.johannhari.com/archive/article.php?id=410.

(1:04:35) “We cannot repeal the laws of natural selection. Nature does not let every life form survive. Humanity uniquely, and to its benefit, can exercise some dominion over this process….”
—“A Conversation with Alexander Sanger,” http://www.alexandersanger.com/interviews.html.

(1:05:20) “We must become proud that we have taken control of our reproduction. This has been a major factor in advancing human evolution and survival.”
—Alexander Sanger, Beyond Choice: Reproductive Freedom and the 21st Century (New York: Public Affairs, 2004), p. 302.

CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION

(1:11:17) Darwin argued that the break in evolutionary history between apes and humans came “between the negro or Australian and the gorilla,” thus he thought that blacks are the closest human beings to apes.
—Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871 edition, J. Murray, London), Part I, Chapter VI, p. 201.

(1:14:240 “With savages, the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilised societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.”
—Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871 edition, J. Murray, London), Part I, Chapter V, p. 168.

So where have we gone wrong, inviting Malthus and Darwin and Galton into our philosophy?

The Eugenics Connection Part One



The Eugenics Connection Part Two

Forced Sterilization? A movie about what was and what could be again...It is old and a bit corny but it is accurate historically and the idea of Obamacare and the fact that your tax dollars are funding abortions should be enough to both horrify and anger you!   It also should be more than enough to inspire you to revisit everything,  and I do mean EVERYTHING you believe about Darwin and Darwinism.   This world is full of people so focused on the minutiae of each day that they do not think critically about the most serious questions of scientific and metaphysical concerns.   What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul?