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Many believe the [[Theory of Evolution|evolutionary ideas]] have contributed to racism. [http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/racism.asp][http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=268]
 
Many believe the [[Theory of Evolution|evolutionary ideas]] have contributed to racism. [http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/faq/racism.asp][http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=268]
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Such blatantly racist ideas must be taken in the context of the times they were written in.  Modern day evolutionary theorists espouse the equality of all humnas.  In fact, anthropologists drawing on evolutionary models now discount any true defining charateristics of different races of humans.
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In fact, Anthropologists today, drawing on evolutionary models, now discount any true defining charateristics of different races of humans.

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Charles Darwin wrote Descent of Man in 1871.

A quote from the work reads:

"Civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate the savage races throughout the world ... The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla."

Many believe the evolutionary ideas have contributed to racism. [1][2] In fact, Anthropologists today, drawing on evolutionary models, now discount any true defining charateristics of different races of humans.