Detrimental Colleagues

Ideas are powerful! They silently direct us as if we had a bridal in our mouth. Take Darwin’s idea:

“The weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this has been highly injurious to the race of man…Hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.” (The Descent of Man)

Make sense? It’s an idea that hardly seems to represent any danger, right? Well, let’s look at a similar statement:

“If nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such a case all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile.”

This quote is so similar to Darwin’s. Although it introduces the concept of “race,” it is virtually saying the same thing. However, the latter statement came from the pen of Adolph Hitler in Mein Kampf!

Darwinism played an unmistakable supporting role in life and direction of Nazism. Therefore, historian Richard Weikart’s conclusion seems justified:

“Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism, especially in its social Darwinist and eugenics permutations, neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary scientific underpinnings to convince themselves and their collaborators that one of the world’s greatest atrocities was really morally praiseworthy.” (From Darwin to Hitler, All the above quotations are taken from the “Expelled Leader’s Guide.”)

Ideas are not only the mortar of society, they are also its building blocks, or perhaps its termites!

(There’s still time to see Expelled!)

Daniel Mann