Thorough takedown of the supposed connection between Darwin and Nazism.
by T. Ryan Gregory, on November 17th, 2011
It has been a common tactic among creationists to attempt to discredit scientific ideas by linking them to the horrific actions of the likes of Hitler and the Nazis. The scientific merits of a theory do not rest on its societal implications, of course, but there is also the issue that the Nazis did not take any of their ideas from Darwin or evolutionary concepts. Rather, as this very thorough debunking by UK astrophysicist Coel Hellier shows, it was quite the opposite in that the Nazis had an explicitly creationist ideology.
How many times do we see people claiming Darwin promoted fascist thinking and “atheistic regimes”? Hitchens has a few good examples of exactly how Nazi Germany was not a product of Darwinism:
How many times do we see people claiming Darwin promoted fascist thinking and “atheistic regimes”? Hitchens has a few good examples of exactly how Nazi Germany was not a product of Darwinism:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZXcjPNPJbE
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