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Darwin's Racism
by Harun Yahya
In the 19th century, when Darwin put
forward his claim that living things had not been created, that they had
emerged by coincidence, and that the human being had a common ancestor
with animals and had emerged as the most highly developed organism as the
result of coincidence, perhaps most people could not imagine what the
results of this claim would be. But in the 20th century the end result of
the claim was lived out in terrible experiences. Those who saw human
beings as a developed animal, did not hesitate to rise by treading on the
weak, to find a way of disposing of the sick and weak, and to carry out
massacres to get rid of races which they saw as different and inferior.
Because their theory with a mask of science told them that this was a "law
of nature." The disasters Darwinism brought to the world began in this
way, and gathering speed, spread over the whole world.
Darwin's close friend Professor Adam
Sedgwick was one of the people who saw what dangers the theory of
evolution would give rise to in the future. He remarked, after reading and
digesting The Origin of Species, that
"if this book were to find
general public acceptance, it would bring with it a brutalization of the
human race such as it had never seen before."
And
truly, time showed that Sedgwick was right to have doubts. The 20th
century has gone down in history as a dark age when people underwent
massacres simply because of their race or ethnic origins.
"The Preservation of Favored Races..."
Most Darwinists in our day claim that
Darwin used the expression "By the Preservation of Favored Races"
in the subtitle to The Origin of Species only for animals. However,
what those who make this claim ignore is what Darwin says about human
races in his book.
Darwin claimed that the "fight for
survival" also applied between human races. "Favored races" emerged
victorious from this struggle. According to Darwin the favored race were
the European whites. As for Asian and African races, they had fallen
behind in the fight for survival.
At some future period, not very distant
as measured by centuries, the civilized 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 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.
As we have seen, in his book, The Origin
of Species, Darwin saw the natives of Australia and Negroes as being at
the same level as gorillas and claimed that these races would disappear.
As for the other races which he saw as "inferior," he maintained that it
was essential to prevent them multiplying and so for these races to be
brought to extinction. So the traces of racism and discrimination which we
still come across in our time were approved and lent justification by
Darwin in this way.
Darwin's racist side showed its effect in
much of his writing and observations. For example, he openly set out his
racist prejudices while describing the natives of Tierra del Fuego whom he
saw on a long voyage he set out on in 1871. He described the natives as
living creatures "wholly nude, submerged in dyes, eating what they find
just like wild animals, uncontrolled, cruel to everybody out of their
tribe, taking pleasure in torturing their enemies, offering bloody
sacrifices, killing their children, ill-treating their wives, full of
awkward superstitions". Whereas according to the researcher W. P. Snow,
the Tierra del Fuegians were "fine powerful looking fellows; they were
very fond of their children; some of their artifacts were ingenious; they recognised some sort of rights over property; and they accepted the
authority of several of the oldest women."
As has been seen from these examples Darwin
was a complete racist.
Furthermore, Darwin's theory's denying the
existence of God had been the cause of peoples' not seeing that man was
something created by God and that all men were created equal. This was one
of the factors behind the rise of racism, the acceleration of its
acceptance in the world and the 20th century saw massacres carried out for
reasons of racism…!.
(For further information
on the subject, see "Disasters Darwinism Brought to Humanity" by
Harun Yahya)
Notes:
A. E.
Wilder-Smith, "Man's Origin Man's Destiny", The Word for Today Publishing,
1993, p.166
Charles Darwin,
"The Descent of Man", 2nd edition,
New York, A L. Burt Co., 1874, p. 178
Godfrey Lienhardt,
"Social Anthropology", Oxford
University Press, p. 11
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