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Line 84: − − == Charles Darwin, Nazi ideology and eugenics == − − In a [[Creation Ministries International]] article entitled ''Darwin and eugenics: − Darwin was indeed a ‘Social Darwinist’'' Bill Muehlenberg writes: − {{cquote|‘Darwin’s work is filled with references to the work of those involved in creating a radical new “scientific” justification for labeling races, classes, and individuals as “inferior”. … Darwin writes in The Descent of Man that “a most important obstacle in civilized countries to an increase in the number of men of a superior class” is the tendency of society’s “very poor and reckless”, who are “often degraded by vice”, to increase faster than “the provident and generally virtuous members”.’<ref>[http://creation.com/darwin-and-eugenics ''Darwin and eugenics: − Darwin was indeed a ‘Social Darwinist’'' by Bill Muehlenberg]</ref>}} − − In addition, Dennis Sewell declared cornering the Darwin family: − {{cquote|[In the] years leading up to the First World War, the eugenics movement looked like a Darwin family business. … Darwin’s son Leonard replaced his cousin Galton as chairman of the national Eugenics Society in 1911. In the same year an offshoot of the society was formed in Cambridge. Among its leading members were three more of Charles Darwin’s sons, Horace, Francis and George.” <ref>[http://creation.com/eugenics-a-darwin-family-business Eugenics: “a Darwin family business”]</ref>}} − − Charles Darwin is often considered a [[Proto-Nazi]] for his evolutionary paradigm's influence on [[eugenics]]. Eugenics is the concept of artificially 'evolving' humans by determining who can live, die, or reproduce. [[Adolf Hitler]] would later on use Darwin's theory of [[evolution]] to justify his eugenics programs, including the [[Holocaust]].
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Charles Darwin wrote in his work ''[[The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex]]'':
Charles Darwin wrote in his work ''[[The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex]]'':
{{cquote|At some future period not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes...will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest Allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as the baboon, instead of as now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla.<ref>http://www.aim.org/wls/90/</ref><ref name="DoM6">[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/dscmn10.txt The Descent of Man], chapter VI</ref>}}
{{cquote|At some future period not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes...will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest Allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as the baboon, instead of as now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla.<ref>http://www.aim.org/wls/90/</ref><ref name="DoM6">[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/dscmn10.txt The Descent of Man], chapter VI</ref>}}
==Darwin's Belief in Male Superiority==
==Darwin's Belief in Male Superiority==