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{{cquote|After 1859, the evolutionary schema raised additional questions, particularly whether or not Afro-Americans could survive competition with their white near-relations. The momentous answer was a resounding no.... The [[Africa]]n was inferior — he represented the missing link between [[ape]] and Teuton." <ref name="icr.org">https://www.icr.org/article/55/</ref>}}

{{cquote|After 1859, the evolutionary schema raised additional questions, particularly whether or not Afro-Americans could survive competition with their white near-relations. The momentous answer was a resounding no.... The [[Africa]]n was inferior — he represented the missing link between [[ape]] and Teuton." <ref name="icr.org">https://www.icr.org/article/55/</ref>}}

Harvard University's [[Stephen Jay Gould]] stated, "Biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1859, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory."<ref>https://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=268</ref>

Harvard University's [[Stephen Jay Gould]] stated, "Biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1859, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory."<ref>https://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=268</ref> See also: [[Evolutionary racism]] and [[Atheism and racism]]

[[Australia]]n atheist and [[philosopher]] David Stove argues that evolutionary ideas were influential in regards to the [[sexual revolution]].  In his work entitled ''Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity and Other Fables of Evolution'', Stove states that The “new religion of selfish genes” classifies all humans as biological errors.<ref name="humanevents.com">http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18094</ref> Stove further states that “the great sexual emancipators after 1859” ([[Havelock Ellis|Ellis]], [[Freud]], [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]], Stopes, [[Margaret Sanger|Sanger]], Mead, Reich) "were all Darwinians" and that [[genetics]] supplied "the new religionists" their gods ... the [[chromosome]]s of the sex cells.” <ref name="humanevents.com"/>

[[Australia]]n atheist and [[philosopher]] David Stove argues that evolutionary ideas were influential in regards to the [[sexual revolution]].  In his work entitled ''Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity and Other Fables of Evolution'', Stove states that The “new religion of selfish genes” classifies all humans as biological errors.<ref name="humanevents.com">http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=18094</ref> Stove further states that “the great sexual emancipators after 1859” ([[Havelock Ellis|Ellis]], [[Freud]], [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]], Stopes, [[Margaret Sanger|Sanger]], Mead, Reich) "were all Darwinians" and that [[genetics]] supplied "the new religionists" their gods ... the [[chromosome]]s of the sex cells.” <ref name="humanevents.com"/>