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== Hitler and genocide ==
== Hitler and genocide ==
[[Image:Hitlerspeech.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[Adolph Hitler]]]]
[[Image:Hitlerspeech.jpg|thumb|300px|right|[[Adolph Hitler]]]]
Darwin's evolutionary racism would have enormous impact in early 20th century, eventually leading to [[eugenics]] programs (first devised by Darwin's cousin [[Francis Galton]]) in American and Europe, while influencing [[Adolph Hitler]], who wrote:
Darwin's evolutionary racism would have enormous impact in early 20th century, eventually leading to [[eugenics]] programs (first devised by Darwin's cousin [[Francis Galton]]) in American and Europe, and also influencing [[Adolph Hitler]].
[[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] also wrote in ''Mein Kampf'':
{{cquote|The stronger must dominate and not blend with the weaker, thus sacrificing his own greatness. Only the born weakling can view this as cruel, but he, after all, is only a weak and limited man; for if this law did not prevail, any conceivable higher development (Hoherentwicklung) of organic living beings would be unthinkable.<ref>http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=268</ref>}}
Robert E.D. Clark in his work ''Darwin: Before and After'' wrote regarding Hitler's evolutionary racism:
{{cquote|The Germans were the higher race, destined for a glorious evolutionary future. For this reason it was essential that the Jews should be segregated, otherwise mixed marriages would take place. Were this to happen, all nature’s efforts “to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being may thus be rendered futile” (''Mein Kampf''). <ref>http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1675</ref>}}
who wrote:
{{cquote|The Germans were the higher race, destined for a glorious evolutionary future. For this reason it was essential that the [[Jew]]s should be segregated, otherwise mixed marriages would take place. Were this to happen, all nature’s efforts “to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being may thus be rendered futile”<ref>Bergman, Jerry. [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1675 "Darwinism and the Nazi race Holocaust"] Creationontheweb.com</ref>}}
{{cquote|The Germans were the higher race, destined for a glorious evolutionary future. For this reason it was essential that the [[Jew]]s should be segregated, otherwise mixed marriages would take place. Were this to happen, all nature’s efforts “to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being may thus be rendered futile”<ref>Bergman, Jerry. [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1675 "Darwinism and the Nazi race Holocaust"] Creationontheweb.com</ref>}}
{{cquote|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 cases all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile. <ref>Muehlenberg, Bill. [http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/09/15/a-church-apology-to-darwin/ "A Church Apology to Darwin?"] BillMuehlenberg.com.</ref>}}
{{cquote|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 cases all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile. <ref>Muehlenberg, Bill. [http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/09/15/a-church-apology-to-darwin/ "A Church Apology to Darwin?"] BillMuehlenberg.com.</ref>}}
However conflict arises among historians because Hitler himself banned many of Darwin's book's <ref>[http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/burnedbooks/documents.htm#blacklist</ref> List of Banned Books by Hitler] and the [[Nazi]] movment was inspired in part by the teachings of [[Martin Luther]] who was generally against the notion of evoltuion.
However conflict arises among historians because Hitler himself banned many of Darwin's book's <ref>[http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/burnedbooks/documents.htm#blacklist</ref> List of Banned Books by Hitler] and the [[Nazi]] movment was inspired in part by the teachings of [[Martin Luther]] who was generally against the notion of evoltuion.
== Present impact ==
== Present impact ==