Is Dawrwin's theory of evolution racist?

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•Darwinian evolution is inherently a racist philosophy, teaching that different groups or races evolved at different times and rates, so some groups are more like their ape-like ancestors than others.[14]

• Before Darwinian evolution was popularized, when most people talked about "races," they were referring to such groups as the "English race," "Irish race," etc.[14]

• Robert N. Proctor (Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis [1988]) observed: "Prior to Darwin, it was difficult to argue against the Judeo-Christian conception of the unity of man, based on the single creation of Adam and Eve. Darwin 's theory suggested that humans had evolved over hundreds of thousands, even millions of years, and that the races of men had diverged while adapting to the particularities of local conditions. The impact of Darwin's theory was enormous."[17]

• Darwin spoke of the "gorilla" and the "*****" [sic] as occupying evolutionary positions between the "Baboon" and the "civilized races of man" ("Caucasian"); viz: 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 ***** [sic] or Australian and the gorilla.[49, 3]

• Despite his hatred of slavery, Darwin's writings reek with all kinds of contempt for "primitive" people.[17]

• Thomas Huxley wrote: "No rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average ***** (sic) is the equal, still less the superior, of the white man. And if this be true, it is simply incredible that, when all his disabilities are removed, and our prognathous relative has a fair field and no favor, as well as no oppressor, he will be able to compete successively with his bigger-brained and smaller-jawed rival, in a contest which is to be carried on by thoughts and not by bites." (Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews, 1871)[17]

•Many of the early evolutionists were outspoken racists, and racial inferiority views were assumed to be proven, and thus were less a subject of debate or concern than one today would assume
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• H. Klaatsch, a prominent German evolutionist, concluded that human races differ not only because of survival factors, but also for the reason that they evolved from different primates. The Blacks came from the gorillas, the Whites from the chimpanzees, and the Orientals from the orangutans, and it is for this reason that some races are superior. He concluded that "the gorilla and the Neanderthal man" have a close biological affinity to "a large number of the living African blacks

Answer 1

Darwinism is racist if you view more highly evolved beings being better than less highly evolved. I think most evolutionist do not look at it that one. They think that there is no reason to say one race is better than an other. One is just better adapted to a specific climate than others.

Answer 2

Darwin was a racist, that is true. That doesn't mean that the theory of evolution as such is racist. I am convinced in the theory of evolution but I am not a racist at all. You should keep in mind that the theory of evolution wasn't created by Darwin alone. Many other scientists after him improved it, added more knowledge to it and disproved some aspects of it in which Darwin was wrong.
What Klaatsch wrote is plain nonsense, but he wrote that 100 years ago when we didn't have the knowledge we have now. His hypothesis was made up, never supported by any evidence and has been disproven long ago. We know that all human beings descent from the same ape-like common ancestor and that the chimps are the apes that are the closest related to all human beings. DNA analyses prove this and they don't provide any scientific base for racism.
At the time when Darwin and Klaatsch lived there was a lot of racism, it was the thinking of the time and influenced them. This racism existed already long before the theory of evolution was developed. However we know better now. I repeat there is no scientific base for racism.

Answer 3

Not at all. There are different races of people and we are still evolving into them via inter marriage of the races and their children. Is not that evolution?

Answer 4

Not in my opinion.