[Apparently, all evolutionists are neonazis.]
"To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler,” said Dr. Kennedy, the host of Darwin’s Deadly Legacy. “Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it."
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So, how were Nazi eugenics different from pig-breeding*, which of course never happened before Darwin?
(*technically, I mean, not morally)
Laugh-out-loud-stupidity.
Darwin is as responsible for the Holocaust as the Chinese (inventors of gunpowder) were responsible for the deaths of the defenders of the Alamo.
DJK, you are a stupid, stupid man. Have you decided that you can create '6 degrees of Charles Darwin' and connect him to anybody? You are truly a pathetic little worm.
I get the feeling that the lack of evolutionary theory would not have significantly hindered Hitler in his obsessive quest to rid the earth of his chosen hate groups. He'd just have fallen back on his other excuses (They killed Christ, they secretly run the economy, they eat babies, they have big noses and cooties, etc etc)
The only way Darwin could have been in any way responsible for Hitler was if he had either raised him or been one of his ancestors. As far as I know, neither was the case. This show's entire "reaoning" is flawed from the foundation up, and it also resorted to fraud against at least one of its guests to garner "support" for its position, so it deserves to be presented as nothing more serious than an MST3K flick.
Unfortunately, however, I agree with g-21-lto that teachers will probably have to be doing damage control for quite some time on account of this show -- as if they didn't have enough trouble already.
~David D.G.
From that same site:
“The time has come,” Dr. Kennedy said, “to recognize that evolution is a bad idea and should be, frankly, discarded into the dustbin of history.”
So all the creationist yahoos may rejoice. O' brave new world...
Actually the thing most responsible for the Holocaust, was WWI. Seriously, if Germany hadn't been defeated during WWI there wouldn't have been an opportunity for Hitler to rise to power.
Thus, I say we should blame Archeduke Franz Ferdinand for the Holocaust. If he hadn't died horribly at the hands of assasins there would never have been a WWI and Hitler would never have risen to power!
By this "logic" the person who discovered fire is as evil as Hitler. I mean, it's a very useful thing, which has killed millions over the years when misused or uncontrolled. Same with knives, guns, alcohol, cars, etc.. Just because something has bad effects when misused doesn't mean it's a bad idea.
Also, just because some fact can be misused (and what fact can't be?) does not make it less true.
From what deepest, darkest recess of your colon did you pull this diseased gem of stupidity?
Hitler firmly believed he was doing the work of the Christian God by eliminating the mongrel races.
You, sir, are an idiot.
CousinTed:
While we're at it, let's blame Napoleon for smashing the Holy Roman Empire and giving rise to the proto-German state of Prussia from its ashes.
Or Otto I the Great, who many people credit with the founding of the HRE.
On a note related to the Whoor of Babble-on: A friend of mine once claimed that the HRE threw Christians to the lions. Apparently he was confusing Otto I's Empire with Augustus Caesar's. This led on to a conversation in which he smeared the Roman Catholic Church with almost everything but the blood libel.
Oy, I say. Oy, oy, oy.
To put it simply, no Darwin, no Hitler,
Well, technically, this may be true. The world is a chaotic system; if Darwin had been killed as an infant (or if he had crushed a butterfly), Hitler may never have existed, or may never have done anything wrong.
Hitler tried to speed up evolution, to help it along, and millions suffered and died in unspeakable ways because of it.
Hitler tried to speed up evolution, and I'm a song from the sixties.
Look, Mr. Kennedy:
1. Evolution does not work that way! (No Morbo this time.)
2. Hitler was a creationist.
Sorry, Hitler read, as far as I am concerned, Nietzche, and of course, he misinterpreted the whole thing, as usual. What a flawed example.
As I recall it, Hitler felt he was doing God's work, cleansing the impure, leaving only the "perfect" humans. Ball's in your court, buddy.
No, Darwin said that species change to become more adept at surviving hardships. Hitler said...a bunch of crazy shit in German which I am not fluent in, but he basically said that the Aryan people (which he was not) were inherently better then everyone else. No reason, no evolution, they were never less then what they are now. They've always been better. That's not evolution. That's eugenics. BIG difference.
If Darwin had never been born, Hitler still would have been a crazy Jew-hating monster. You'd just be blaming it on Jean-Baptiste LeMarcke, the formost expert on evolution before Darwin came along.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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