-Social Darwinism -Hitler and Eugenics -Stalin and Communism -Academic freedom and struggle
Note: This first part only looks at Social Darwinism, Hitler and Eugenics
It really looks as though the only link between 20th century dictators and 'Darwinism' is how much the dictators loved to ban it and talk it down.
"The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger." - Adolf Hitler
(The kind barrier argument)
"For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties." - Adolf Hitler
(The god made us because we are complex argument)
"From where do we get the right to believe, that from the very beginning Man was not what he is today?
Looking at Nature tells us, that in the realm of plants and animals changes and developments happen.
But nowhere inside a kind shows such a development as the breadth of the jump, as Man must supposedly have made, if he has developed from an ape-like state to what he is today." - Adolf Hitler
(The there is no macroevolution so we didnt come from apes argument) ad nauseum
-Social Darwinism
-Hitler and Eugenics
-Stalin and Communism
-Academic freedom and struggle
Note: This first part only looks at Social Darwinism, Hitler and Eugenics
It really looks as though the only link between 20th century dictators and 'Darwinism' is how much the dictators loved to ban it and talk it down.
"The fox remains always a fox, the goose remains a goose, and the tiger will retain the character of a tiger." - Adolf Hitler
(The kind barrier argument)
"For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties." - Adolf Hitler
(The god made us because we are complex argument)
"From where do we get the right to believe, that from the very beginning Man was not what he is today?
Looking at Nature tells us, that in the realm of plants and animals changes and developments happen.
But nowhere inside a kind shows such a development as the breadth of the jump, as Man must supposedly have made, if he has developed from an ape-like state to what he is today." - Adolf Hitler
(The there is no macroevolution so we didnt come from apes argument)
ad nauseum