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== Influence of the Theory of Evolution on Hitler==

== Influence of the Theory of Evolution on Hitler==

[[Image:Hitler_speech.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Adolph Hitler]]‎

[[Image:Hitler_speech.jpg|thumb|250px|left|Adolph Hitler]]‎

'''George Stein wrote in the journal [[American Scientist]] the following:'''

 

The staunch evolutionist Stephen Gould admitted the following:  

Hitler's views are rather straightforward German [[social Darwinism]] of a type widely known and accepted throughout [[Germany]] and which, more importantly, was considered by most Germans, scientists included, to be scientifically true. More recent scholarship on [[national socialism]] and Hitler has begun to realize that... [Darwin's theory] was the specific characteristic of [[Nazism]]. National socialist "biopolicy," [was] a policy based on a mystical-biological belief in radical inequality, a [[monistic]], antitranscendent moral [[nihilism]] based on the eternal struggle for existence and the survival of the fittest as the law of nature, and the consequent use of state power for a public policy of natural selection.  - George Stein, "Biological Science and the Roots of Nazism." American Scientist, Vol. 76, No. 1, Jan-Feb., 1988, pp. 50-58. <ref>http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1992/PSCF6-92Bergman.html</ref></blockquote>

{{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>}}

'''In regards to [[Adolph Hitler]] and the theory of evolution Richard Hickman wrote in his work ''Biocreation'' the following:'''

'''In regards to [[Adolph Hitler]] and the theory of evolution Richard Hickman wrote in his work ''Biocreation'' the following:'''