Do EVOLUTIONISTS hope to become X-MEN or just re-ignite Hitlers Social-Darwinism?

Question

Whether you want to admit it or not Hitler's SUPREME RACE theory was based on the theory of evolution. Encyclopedia Britannica called it "social-Darwinism".

There is a certain logic that IF MACRO-EVOLUTION is true then there must be a means of advancing to the next stage of evolution. That is if it is true. Considering they have mapped out the human genome I have heard they can unlock human strength and intelligence. Star Wars clone war should be gene war.

MY UNDERSTANDING OF EVOLUTION IS A LOT BETTER THAN Moiraes Fate

Answer 1

I hope for neither. And so-called "social Darwinism" is something altogether different from what Darwin proposed.

"Social Darwinism is the over-extension and misapplication of Darwinian biological ideas to the social realm.... Darwin felt that 'social instincts' such as 'sympathy' and 'moral sentiments' also evolved through natural selection, and that these resulted in the strengthening of societies in which they occurred, so much so that he wrote about it in _Descent of Man_."

Answer 2

Do CREATIONISTS like to pose STUPID QUESTIONS with RIDICULOUS ALTERNATIVES?

Hitler's supreme race idea was actually based on advances in genetics, not evolution. There's a subtle difference. He wanted to remove all people with dominant genes (brown hair, brown eyes) so that everyone would have only recessive genes. That was his excuse anyway -- he actually just wanted a "reason" to discriminate against Jews. Being able to distinguish them genetically allowed him to market them as non-humans, which is a typical wartime tactic.

Anyway, if he had bothered to actually learn evolution, he would have seen that a supreme race is not possible, and is stupid. Even if you managed to remove all dominant genes, mutation will still act on the recessive ones (as well as everything else). Eventually someone, somewhere will redevelop a dominant gene, and it will spread again.

Further, if all of us did have the same recessive genes, a single genetic virus could wipe out most of humanity. That's a stupid position to be in. You want genetic diversity.

Even more, if he understood evolution he'd have a harder time marketing Jews as non-humans, because he'd know we've all been the same species since Homo-Erectus split-off from the previous branch of Homo.

Finally, there are not "stages" to evolution, except maybe in the sense of when one species breaks off from another. However, the new species is not always "better" -- it is just more suited to its environment. "advancing to the next stage of evolution" doesn't even make sense if you actually understand what evolution says.

Therefore, like Hitler, you also don't understand evolution. And you also stereotype people by their beliefs. Apparently you have a lot more in common with him than I.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Evolutionists simply want to understand how life works. You are thinking of eugenicists, who think humanity can be improved by selective breeding.

Evolution states that life forms adapt to changes in their environment, not by changing themselves but by surviving when less well adapted specimens do not. They can determine characteristics of some genes or combinations of genes and may attempt to "improve" a life form's survivability but unless the environment requires that trait, the trait will not predominate without more intervention. Some mutations are maladaptive and will eventually disappear. Others may be beneficial, but if they're already expressed, there is no need for change.

The problem with eugenics is determining what traits are "superior" and exactly how to develop them. That's not science, it's opinion. We are currently hard at work adapting our environment to us. The resulting changes will determine how humanity, and all life, will (not may) adapt in the fulture. The "next" stage cannot be predicted.

Answer 5

rofl. Whhhaaaattttt? Do you even know anything about evolution or are you just trolling?

That isn't how evolution works at all. X-Men is just a movie/comic book/cartoon series and not possible. As for Hitler.. you have to be kidding. You just compared all evolutionists to Hitler, you realize that? You do know how that can be perceived, right?

Utterly ridiculous.

As for evolution, we can't "spur it on". Evolution is controlled by nature, not man.

Btw, you're reported.

Edit: Just because you don't like facts (when you're delivering none of your own) doesn't mean you understand it better. I went to university for biology. And from what I see, you just accused people of being Hitler or wanting to turn into x-men. Who's the more informed on evolution again?

Answer 6

Can we let artificial selection surplant natural selection? Only so far. What traits will survive by choice and what traits will offer an advantage in the environment (more social than physical) may be more unpredictable than they seem at first glance.

Just because something adopts the name of something else doesn't mean you toss out the name donor. "Scientific" Creationism was a laughable joke, but it is hardly a reason to dismiss science.

Answer 7

The real sad fact is, most of the theories on Eugenics and Purification of the species came fom the United States. Hitler just took what was written and created in America, and gave it a very small twist, and gave it a racial bias.

The sterilization of inferiors was started in American mental institutions, where the insane, and retarded were involuntarily sterilized.

Answer 8

Just because something evil is "based on" something else, doesn't mean that thing is wrong or bad. Need I remind you how many bad things, such as the crusades, slavery, and subjugation of women, were based on the bible?

As for the rest of your question... I can't make any sense of it. Please go read some actual books on evolution, come back, and try again.

Answer 9

I believe somewhat is social Darwinism.

Answer 10

Your understanding of evolution is so thoroughly skewed that there can be no answer to the question you ask.

The answer, most directly, is neither.