Comments on Evolution 101: Is Evolution Racist?

Evolution is not racist, it is 'speciest'. That is...

2007-06-03T17:50:00.000-07:00

Evolution is not racist, it is 'speciest'. That is, species do not care much about each other unless competing for resources. Therefore many species which competed with humans are all but exterminated. And who cares? We don't have any empathic understanding but our own.

Humans I would call 'ring species' in that they travelled the globe, altered and have taboos about inter-racial breeding.
This would mean if one race declares itself a fully defined species (not mating outside the group, clear visible identifiction and behaviour), they would be at libery to treat other species as inferior a threat to their existance.
Thus Jews, The Japanese, The Germans among many others have at one time sensed nothing wrong in genocide.

It will happen again if a people believe they are a separate species under threat or have espansion desires.

A definition of humanity that is not bound by ideology, behaviour or coloring takes a conscience.
This requires a long memory and objectivity. Not many humans have this. They forget and respond to type when stressed. Birds of a feather flock together. This is the limitation of the human animal.

Socialism and Religion has meant the increased breeding of the unenlightened and increased indoctrination.

These societies divide people into parallel lives which moves them into separate breeding, separate behaviours, and separate superstitions. On an evolutionary scale this is a good thing to have specialized bio-diversity. Sadly, humans cannot stay in a biodiverse competitative world for long.

Hitler didn't oppose capitalism. Big business help...

2007-01-28T18:27:00.000-08:00

Hitler didn't oppose capitalism. Big business helped him rise to power, and he paid them back in full. Companies like Mercedes Benz, BMW and others reaped the benefits of Nazi imperialism and slave labour.

I've always thought of this whole "Darwin is a rac...

2006-09-10T18:52:00.000-07:00

I've always thought of this whole "Darwin is a racist" argument or "Hitler was an evolutionist" as being entirely rhetorical. Even if they were true, what does that ultimately mean? I'd basically be like, "Yeah? So?"

The theists who use these arguments (Hovind and the like) are basically just poisoning the well. They're not really making an argument. The problem is that the average layman will become blind to reason when bombarded with shocking and outragious statements, even if such statements are easily shown to be false.

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2006-09-02T10:55:00.000-07:00

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After reading "The Beak of the Finch" one wonders ...

2006-08-29T06:35:00.000-07:00

After reading "The Beak of the Finch" one wonders if they lack of desire to hybridize on the part of animals (based on small differences in physical and environmental behavior) isn't a potential progenitor of racism. The theory in the book suggests that hybridization is generally a disadvantage during stable environments, but potentially an advantage during upheavals. If society desires stability, would it tend to foster racism as a means of restricting hybridization?

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2006-08-28T18:34:00.000-07:00

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Hitler, of course, was a creationist, at least as ...

2006-08-28T00:21:00.000-07:00

Hitler, of course, was a creationist, at least as far as human beings were concerned.

Hitler explicity rejected Darwinism and the evolution of man.

From Hitler's Tischgespraeche for the night of the 25th to 26th 1942 'Woher nehmen wir das Recht zu glauben, der Mensch sei nicht von Uranfaengen das gewesen , was er heute ist? Der Blick in die Natur zeigt uns, dass im Bereich der Pflanzen und Tiere Veraenderungen und Weiterbildungen vorkommen. Aber nirgends zeigt sich innherhalb einer Gattung eine Entwicklung von der Weite des Sprungs, den der Mensch gemacht haben muesste, sollte er sich aus einem affenartigen Zustand zu dem, was er ist, fortgebildet haben.'

I shall translate Hitler's words, as recorded by the stenographer.

'From where do we get the right to believe that man was not from the very beginning what he is today.

A glance in Nature shows us , that changes and developments happen in the realm of plants and animals. But nowhere do we see inside a kind, a development of the size of the leap that Man must have made, if he supposedly has advanced from an ape-like condition to what he is' (now)

From Mein Kampf - Volume 2

"Thus for the first time a high inner purpose is accredited to the State. In face of the ridiculous phrase that the State should do no more than act as the guardian of public order and tranquillity, so that everybody can peacefully dupe everybody else, it is given a very high mission indeed to preserve and encourage the highest type of humanity which a beneficent Creator has bestowed on this earth."

"And, further, they ought to be brought to realize that it is their bounden duty to give to the Almighty Creator beings such as He himself made to His own image."

And in the entry for 27 February 1942 , Hitler says 'Das, was der Mensch von dem Tier voraushat, der veilleicht wunderbarste Beweis fuer die Ueberlegenheit des Menschen ist, dass er begriffen hat, dass es eine Schoepferkraft geben muss.'

Hitler used creationist arguments that creationists adore.

From 'Mein Kampf' Volume 1 Chapter 11

'The consequence of this racial purity, universally valid in Nature, is not only the sharp outward delimitation of the various races, but their uniform character in themselves. The fox is always a fox, the goose a goose, the tiger a tiger, etc., and the difference can lie at most in the varying measure of force, strength, intelligence, dexterity, endurance, etc., of the individual specimens. But you will never find a fox who in his inner attitude might, for example, show humanitarian tendencies toward geese, as similarly there is no cat with a friendly inclination toward mice.'

Nobody has found one word by Hitler praising Darwin or suggesting that mankind had evolved from other creatures.

Would you classify yourself as an atheist or an ag...

2006-08-27T18:34:00.000-07:00

Would you classify yourself as an atheist or an agnostic?