Darwin and evolutionist are racist bigots?

Question

Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life
HMMMM.... some title, why do you never put the full title of darwin's theory I am sure no school would ever print the full title but they have to know the theory darwinism was trying to prove.
His original plane was to try and prove the superiority of the Caucasoid race. Categorizing races by there evolutionary development, trying to prove the ******* race as the closest to the ape. So to follow his teaching you are a self admitting bigot and racist. so therefor trying to push racism in our schools, your religion of hatred and bigotry no?

I was hoping to insite anger and i seemed to accomplish just that. You see what happens when somones heartfelt beliefs are challanged in a disrespectful manner anyone can be angered. So why do you think every time we are insulted by our faith that we are not to get angry?
I have read and do know about Darwin's theory and what he was trying to accomoplish. but ......
when you take 1 verse out of the bible not knowing what it really means but just hop on it in ignorance you will get a response from us just as you gave me. so lets keep it civil.

Answer 1

Darwin is the father of modern racism. His theory was taken up and commented on by such "official" founders of modern race theory as Arthur Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, and this racist ideology that emerged was then put into practice by the Nazis and other fascists. James Joll, who spent many years as a professor of history at universities such as Oxford, Stanford, and Harvard, explained the relationship between Darwinism and racism in his book Europe Since 1870, which is still taught as a textbook in universities:
Charles Darwin, the English naturalist whose books On the Origin of Species, published in 1859, and The Descent of Man, which followed in 1871, launched controversies which affected many branches of European thought. The ideas of Darwin, and of some of his contemporaries such as the English philosopher Herbert Spencer, were rapidly applied to questions far removed from the immediate scientific ones. The element of Darwinism which appeared most applicable to the development of society was the belief that the excess of population over the means of support necessitated a constant struggle for survival in which it was the strongest or the 'fittest' who won. From this it was easy for some social thinkers to give a moral content to the notion of the fittest, so that the species or races which did survive were those morally entitled to do so.The doctrine of natural selection could, therefore, very easily become associated with another train of thought developed by the French writer, Count Joseph-Arthur Gobineau, who published an Essay on the Inequality of Human Races in 1853. Gobineau insisted that the most important factor in development was race; and that those races which remained superior were those which kept their racial purity intact. Of these, according to Gobineau, it was the Aryan race which had survived best. It was... Houston Stewart Chamberlain who contributed to carrying some of these ideas a stage further. Hitler himself admired the author [Chamberlain] sufficiently to visit him on his deathbed in 1927
German evolutionist biologist Ernst Haeckel was one of the most important of Nazism's spiritual fathers. Haeckel brought Darwin's theory to Germany, and formulated it as a program ready for the Nazis. From racists such as Arthur Gobineau and Houston Stewart Chamberlain, Hitler adopted a politically-oriented racism, and a biological approach from Haeckel. Careful examination will reveal that these racists all derived their inspiration from Darwinism.

http://www.harunyahya.com/fascism4.php

Answer 2

You have confused basic evolution theory with Eugenics that proposed that the lighter the skin, the more superior the race and that inferior individuals in all races should be sterilized or killed to keep the gene pool as "pure" as possible. All of that was proven to be based on erronious psudo-science years ago. Don't confuse the use of the term "race" and the usage of the phrase "favored species". That doesn't refer to a consciously favored race but a race that is favored by environmental factors or simply put, favored by nature proven by who lives instead of who does not survive.

Answer 3

Most of the basis of scientific study done in 19th century(and before) had a common basis of promoting the "white" race as the dominant "chosen" by God race in the world. Most of the discoveries and credits were taken away from the asian and middle eastern philosophers... the best example is the Pythogoras theorms ..it was mostly plagiarized from Middle eastern and Indian subcontinent. Even the theory on Black Hole was conceptualized by an Indian scientist- who was not given the credit..till late. So though your premise is correct it is not limited to Darwin or evolutionist.

Answer 4

Modern day science is unconcerned with ethical or moral issues, those issues are to be determined by policy makers. Whether or not you agree with it, the ***** race has been dominated by the caucasoid race since the beginings of human history. I take no position on this except to say that it is fact.

Modern day science is only concerned with the facts. The evidence we have in hand points directly and clearly to natural selection. You can ignore it if you like, but that doesn't make it any less true.

Answer 5

Don't be silly.
Darwin was a naturalist and had no interest in such silly theories, at least none that shows in his work. If you think otherwise try reading it:
http://www.bartleby.com/11/

Natural selection is a principle that applies ti the science of biology, not sociology. Any attempt to apply it to the latter is just twisting a perfectly good scientific theory to suit some preverse world view and makes no sense.
Remember, there is no idea so good that cannot be twisited around out of all recognition.

Answer 6

The whole theory of evoluntion was founded by a man angry at God (Darwin) trying to disprove the existance of the Creator. So of course there are going to these crazy inconsistancies and absurd foundations such as it being a race thing. Darwin himself, admitted to being wrong on his death bed and that he made all that crap up yet they still teach it in school as if it were scientific facts

Answer 7

I agree that his initial intention was to prove the superiority of his race, but his evolutionary doctrine was a great scientific breakthrough. Also his bigotry was just a reflection of the times, hence all institutions that refer to his science never mention the latter portion of the title of the book. Society realized his bigotry and tried to amend it by only looking at his scientific conclusions, not his biased and racist personal opinions.


Also I would just like to say that james F has a horrible answer and it's obvious where you were trying to get at...***...

Answer 8

No.

"So to follow his teaching you are a self admitting bigot and racist. so therefor trying to push racism in our schools, your religion of hatred and bigotry no? " is a pretty accurate description of the type of religious intolerance you seem to be pushing.

Go and actually do some research rather than spout dogma and throw pathetic attempts at insults.

Peace out

ADDITIONAL

Sorry your additional details comments don't cut it for me ... you didn't challenge anything you just reinforced a stereotype - quite an effective own goal unfortunately.

Answer 9

That is completely ludicrous. His theory was meant for all animal life, not just humans. "Races" was the term he used to differentiate small differences within a species. Your caucanoid and ******* crap is completely without merit. You should really educate yourself. This is a very sad attempt to discredit a thoroughly studied theory.

Answer 10

You've clearly never studied Darwinian evolution if that's what you think it is about. Favored refers to the process of natural selection and the "survival of the fittest." Trying to play off evolution as racism is making you seem like the bigot here.