Why do those who oppose evolution say that Hitler based his belief on evolution?

Question

Do they not know he also used Nostradomus prophecies and the Christian religion to defend his barbarity?

Answer 1

I never understood this argument. I mean, just because someone might have used the theory of evolution as an excuse for their wrong-doings doesn't make the theory wrong.

Answer 2

Selective memories. Most Christians have been deceived into thinking Hitler was an atheist, and have no clue as to his close ties to the church. Most also deny the historical fact that oppression of Jews was widely supported even in the US at the time, predominantly by Christians. It was only after the degree of atrocity was revealed that many had a change of heart.

Answer 3

Yes he may have but the whole idea was selection & that was what evolution was only the strongest continue & that's what Hitler was trying to do, create a master race & it failed of course because the worlds not meant to be like that. He used other beliefs to try & justify it or in other words try to brainwash other with comforting words...

Answer 4

He did, they are trying to make out ppl who agree with evolution agree with Hitler, so we look bad. At the end of the day ppl have done horrible things in the name of religion too, Hitler would have murdered ppl if he had been christian, it didn't matter he was a psycho!

Answer 5

Hitler took Darwin's theory of natural selection [survival of the fittest] and use it to justify his wacky notion that aryans were the superior race. While Adolph was christian by birth, he was no friend of the church. And as for Nostrodamus, well, alot of nuts have tried to make sense of the stupid, senseless writings of that charlatan. Napolean thought it could help him rule the world. It didn't work out for him either.

Answer 6

its either hitler used darwin's theory so the theory is wrong, or darwin was a racist so the theory was wrong, or genesis 2.7 says god made man out of the dust of the ground so the theory of evolution is wrong, or genesis 1:26-27 let us make man in our image and god is not an ape

so, ignorance of reality will never lead to much more than a choice of the above 4

Answer 7

He wanted to FORCE evolution to fit his race ideals. Other than that, it had nothing to do with Darwin, or any other evolution theroy. And he didn't base it on the Christian religion, he used the religion as a scape goat.

Answer 8

most people are greatly misinformed when it comes to hitler and his atrocities. the sad thing is when fundies insist on using bs like this to try and prove something. the bigger question is, how in the face of scientific proof can people assume evolution isn't a big fat possibility.

Answer 9

The Darwinian roots of the Nazi tree

by Jonathan Sarfati

How could the horrors of the Holocaust occur in the most civilized country in the world? The sheer enormity of the killings required a huge network of people, so how could so many commit such atrocities?

Richard Weikart, professor of modern European history at California State University, Stanislaus, has thoroughly documented the Darwinian roots of many aspects of the Nazi terror in his recent book From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany.1

He showed that Darwinism provided many of the foundations for Nazi principles. For example, Darwinism undermined the uniqueness of humanity, which in turn undermined the sanctity of innocent life. This by itself is a slippery slope—once society starts down this path of regarding any class of humans as not worthy of life, it is hard to stop this extending to other classes, because the door is already unlocked.

Darwinism also undermined a divine foundation for ethics and morality, so moral relativism replaced traditional moral codes. Instead, the notion of evolutionary progress became the highest good (overlooking the contradiction that notions of ‘goodness’ are meaningless when morals become relative). So Christian ideas of compassion for the sick and handicapped were dismissed as weak. They were replaced by notions of the strong dominating the weak, even claiming that it was kind to eliminate the weak.

The notion of evolutionary fitness was not only applied to individuals but groups. Weikart points out that pre-Darwinian racist ideas were usually repulsed by the dominant Christian worldview that all people come from Adam and Eve. But the German Darwinian racists dismissed the darker ‘races’ as being closer to the apes than to the ‘superior’ lighter humans. This had horrifying consequences in the Herero genocide in Africa in the early 1900s.2

The line from Darwin to Hitler was not straightforward, because it was so highly branched. Weikart shows that Darwin’s ideas became enormously popular in educated German circles largely through the writings of Ernst Haeckel, of forged embryo drawing infamy.3 Haeckel in turn strongly influenced Alfred Ploetz, the founder of the German Society for Race Hygiene, the world’s first eugenics organization. This organization included Julius Lehmann as a leading member. He was a racist eugenicist and major publisher of medical and scientific textbooks, and had extensive contact with Hitler from 1920.

These ideas were not only widespread in elite academic circles, they had filtered down into the Viennese press during Hitler’s pre-WWI days. After Hitler’s rise, Nazi propaganda spread these ideas still further to the masses. One film, Victim of the Past (1937), showed a disfigured handicapped person and declared:

‘Everything in the natural world that is weak for life will ineluctably [unavoidably] be destroyed. In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven’t just maintained life unworthy of life, we have even allowed it to multiply! The descendants of these sick people look like this!’

Sadly, today, the very philosophy that was foundational to Nazism is taught as fact in Western media and educational circles. And atheistic philosophers such as Peter Singer and James Rachels have applied the same reasoning as the Nazis—that Darwinism has undermined the sanctity of human life, so involuntary euthanasia should be allowed, e.g. for disabled newborns. This shows that if we don’t learn from history, we are likely to repeat it

I have many more like this if you wish to read them..

Answer 10

his areian(sp?) nation was to be roman catholic. so if he based his belifes on evolution why did he choose roman catholics as the suppirior religion?