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== Racist influence ==

== Racist influence ==

Darwin's writings, which became very influential in the late 19th century, provided an argument for reason. Social Darwinism isn't scientific at all.  Harvard University's staunch evolutionist [[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>http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=268</ref>

Darwin's writings, which became very influential in the late 19th century, provided an argument for racism.  Harvard University's staunch evolutionist [[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>http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=268</ref>

[[Stephen Gould]] also admitted the following about the [[Atheism|atheist]] [[Ernst Haeckel]]:  

[[Stephen Gould]] also admitted the following about the [[Atheism|atheist]] [[Ernst Haeckel]]:  

{{cquote|[[Ernst Haeckel|Haeckel]] was the chief apostle of evolution(though evolution isn't a religion ) in [[Germany]].... His evolutionary racism; his call to the German people for [[racial purity]] and unflinching devotion to a "just" state; his belief that harsh, inexorable laws of evolution ruled human civilization and nature alike, conferring upon favored races the right to dominate others; the irrational [[mysticism]] that had always stood in strange communion with his brave words about objective science - all contributed to the rise of Nazism. -  Stephen J. Gould, "Ontogeny and Phylogeny," Belknap Press: Cambridge MA, 1977, pp.77-78). <ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/social.html</ref>}}

{{cquote|[[Ernst Haeckel|Haeckel]] was the chief apostle of evolution in [[Germany]].... His evolutionary racism; his call to the German people for [[racial purity]] and unflinching devotion to a "just" state; his belief that harsh, inexorable laws of evolution ruled human civilization and nature alike, conferring upon favored races the right to dominate others; the irrational [[mysticism]] that had always stood in strange communion with his brave words about objective science - all contributed to the rise of Nazism. -  Stephen J. Gould, "Ontogeny and Phylogeny," Belknap Press: Cambridge MA, 1977, pp.77-78). <ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/social.html</ref>}}

Social Darwinism(once again not science) and evolutionary racism(?) allowed "human zoos" to proliferate in the late 1800s, wherein a supposed evolutionary progression of humans - from apes, to Africans, to West Europeans - were placed in a line.  African and other tribal populations were routinely described as more akin to savage primates than Europeans.

Social Darwinism and evolutionary racism allowed "human zoos" to proliferate in the late 1800s, wherein a supposed evolutionary progression of humans - from apes, to Africans, to West Europeans - were placed in a line.  African and other tribal populations were routinely described as more akin to savage primates than Europeans.

== Hitler and genocide ==

== Hitler and genocide ==