Re: Social Darwinism; was: So Long Judge Moore, We'll Miss You

Dick C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> ambrose searle wrote in talk.origins
> 
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (maff) wrote in message news:
> >> But Bible Belt fundamentalists, Confederates and the Klan didn't
> >> beleive in Darwin or evolution. THey wre murdering and torturing
> >> people even before Darwin.
> > 
> > So what? How does that change the fact that Darwin was also a racist?
> 
> How racist was he, especially when compared to others of his society?
> Why condemn someone's thinking when it reflected the then current societal
> attidudes?

He was not only a racist, but he promoted the idea that racial
superiority was a product of natural selection. Thus, those who lived
in colder climates (like white Northern Europeans) were forced by
natural selection to evolve into more creative races that had the
ingenuity to build fires and houses, while those living closer to the
Equator (like Black Africans) remained inferior in their mental
capacity.

This is the "science" that ultimately led to Hitler's project of an
Aryan super-race, via natural selection.

Searle