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Essay: Richard Dawkins' comment concerning Adolf Hitler (view source)
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[[Image:Hitler.jpg|thumb|300px|right|thumbnail|[[Richard Dawkins]] said in an interview, "What’s to prevent us from saying [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] wasn’t right? I mean, that is a genuinely difficult question..."<ref name=Hitler>http://byfaithonline.com/page/in-the-world/richard-dawkins-the-atheist-evangelist</ref>]]
[[Richard Dawkins]] said in an interview, "What’s to prevent us from saying [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] wasn’t right? I mean, that is a genuinely difficult question..."<ref name=Hitler>http://byfaithonline.com/page/in-the-world/richard-dawkins-the-atheist-evangelist</ref>
The interviewer wrote, regarding the Hitler comment, "I was stupefied. He had readily conceded that his own [[philosophy|philosophical]] position did not offer a rational basis for moral judgments. His intellectual honesty was refreshing, if somewhat disturbing on this point."<ref name=Hitler />
About 12 million perished during the [[Holocaust]] due to brutal [[Nazi]] policies and Richard Dawkins finds it difficult question on whether Hitler was wrong or right in what he did?<ref>http://www.holocaust-history.org/questions/numbers.shtml</ref> The torture, mistreatment, disease breeding conditions, gruesome experiments on human beings, and overwork were horrendous in concentration camps.<ref>http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/][http://www.holocaust-history.org/</ref><ref>http://www.auschwitz.dk/</ref><ref>http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005168</ref>
== Evolutionary racism of Adolph Hitler and Charles Darwin ==
[[Adolf Hitler]] wrote the following [[Evolutionary racism|evolutionary racist]] material in his work ''[[Mein Kampf]]:
{{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>http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/09/15/a-church-apology-to-darwin/</ref>}}
[[Charles Darwin]] himself was a racist and white supremacist. He predicted mass genocide claiming:
{{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 name="DoM6">[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/dscmn10.txt The Descent of Man], chapter VI</ref>}}
== Josef Mengele ==
[[Image:Joseph_mengel.jpg|thumb|300px|Josef Mengele]]
''For more information see:'' [[Josef Mengele]]
[[Josef Mengele]] (1911 - 1979) was a [[Germany|German]] [[physician]] and researcher who perpetrated the [[Holocaust]] in the [[Auschwitz]] death camp. Mengele had obtained a [[Ph.D.]] based on the study of [[racial]] differences in the anatomy of the jaw. He was one of the greatest supporters of [[Nazi]] theories of racial superiority with questionable research claims. Dr. Josef Mengele's [[evolution|evolutionary]] thinking was in accordance with [[Social Darwinism|social Darwinist]] theories that [[Adolph Hitler]] and a number of [[German]] academics found appealing.<ref>http://www.posner.com/book1.htm</ref> Mengele studied under the leading proponents the "unworthy life" branch of evolutionary thought.<ref>http://www.posner.com/book1.htm</ref> Mengele strongly supported the murder of the physically and mentally disabled. Dr. Mengele was one of the most notorious individuals associated with [[Nazi]] death camps and the [[Holocaust]].<ref>http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/joseph_mengele.htm</ref> Dr. Mengele obtained a infamous reputation due to his experiments on twins while at [[Auschwitz]]-Birkenau.<ref>http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/joseph_mengele.htm</ref> He was known as the "Angel of Death."
He performed experiments on humans in the [[concentration camp]]s attempting to prove that disease was the product of [[racism|racial inferiority]] and in order to [[eugenics|genetically engineer]] a new species, which was the aim of his organization, the Frankfurt based Institute of Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. He amputated healthy limbs and performed other unusual operations on prisoners.
* A note of thanks for the Conservapedians who composed the [[Joseph Mengele]] material
==References==
{{reflist|3}}
[[Richard Dawkins]] said in an interview, "What’s to prevent us from saying [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] wasn’t right? I mean, that is a genuinely difficult question..."<ref name=Hitler>http://byfaithonline.com/page/in-the-world/richard-dawkins-the-atheist-evangelist</ref>
The interviewer wrote, regarding the Hitler comment, "I was stupefied. He had readily conceded that his own [[philosophy|philosophical]] position did not offer a rational basis for moral judgments. His intellectual honesty was refreshing, if somewhat disturbing on this point."<ref name=Hitler />
About 12 million perished during the [[Holocaust]] due to brutal [[Nazi]] policies and Richard Dawkins finds it difficult question on whether Hitler was wrong or right in what he did?<ref>http://www.holocaust-history.org/questions/numbers.shtml</ref> The torture, mistreatment, disease breeding conditions, gruesome experiments on human beings, and overwork were horrendous in concentration camps.<ref>http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/][http://www.holocaust-history.org/</ref><ref>http://www.auschwitz.dk/</ref><ref>http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005168</ref>
== Evolutionary racism of Adolph Hitler and Charles Darwin ==
[[Adolf Hitler]] wrote the following [[Evolutionary racism|evolutionary racist]] material in his work ''[[Mein Kampf]]:
{{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>http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/09/15/a-church-apology-to-darwin/</ref>}}
[[Charles Darwin]] himself was a racist and white supremacist. He predicted mass genocide claiming:
{{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 name="DoM6">[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/dscmn10.txt The Descent of Man], chapter VI</ref>}}
== Josef Mengele ==
[[Image:Joseph_mengel.jpg|thumb|300px|Josef Mengele]]
''For more information see:'' [[Josef Mengele]]
[[Josef Mengele]] (1911 - 1979) was a [[Germany|German]] [[physician]] and researcher who perpetrated the [[Holocaust]] in the [[Auschwitz]] death camp. Mengele had obtained a [[Ph.D.]] based on the study of [[racial]] differences in the anatomy of the jaw. He was one of the greatest supporters of [[Nazi]] theories of racial superiority with questionable research claims. Dr. Josef Mengele's [[evolution|evolutionary]] thinking was in accordance with [[Social Darwinism|social Darwinist]] theories that [[Adolph Hitler]] and a number of [[German]] academics found appealing.<ref>http://www.posner.com/book1.htm</ref> Mengele studied under the leading proponents the "unworthy life" branch of evolutionary thought.<ref>http://www.posner.com/book1.htm</ref> Mengele strongly supported the murder of the physically and mentally disabled. Dr. Mengele was one of the most notorious individuals associated with [[Nazi]] death camps and the [[Holocaust]].<ref>http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/joseph_mengele.htm</ref> Dr. Mengele obtained a infamous reputation due to his experiments on twins while at [[Auschwitz]]-Birkenau.<ref>http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/joseph_mengele.htm</ref> He was known as the "Angel of Death."
He performed experiments on humans in the [[concentration camp]]s attempting to prove that disease was the product of [[racism|racial inferiority]] and in order to [[eugenics|genetically engineer]] a new species, which was the aim of his organization, the Frankfurt based Institute of Hereditary Biology and Racial Hygiene. He amputated healthy limbs and performed other unusual operations on prisoners.
* A note of thanks for the Conservapedians who composed the [[Joseph Mengele]] material
==References==
{{reflist|3}}