Despite Charles Darwin's overt racism and sexism, people still believe Evolution happens. (see details)?

Question

Do people, such as myself, still believe Evolution happens because of evidence, and the fact that one scientist who observed some of the evidence for Evolution was a racist and a sexist really has nothing to do with the science behind Evolution

Answer 1

You cannot judge Darwin as a sexist and racist in 21st century terms. He lived in the 19th century. (Or was it 18th?) Anyway, a long time ago. Standards were different then, and by the standards of his day, he was not being unjust.

Besides, the truth of a scientific theory does not rely on the personal character of the discoverer. It lies on the evidence he presents and others verify. You realize, of course, that evolution does not rely only on the arguments and evidence presented by Charles Darwin, but on all the evidence and argument provided by hundreds or thousands of scientists since his time, using better and better research tools and more sophisticated methods of analysis of the data collected (i.e., computers).

Answer 2

Forget about racism it happens, yesterday I heard two 5 year old kids arguing over if a red car could out run a green car. Of course the red car was what one of their daddy's drove. Yes God created man and everything else in the world, but once he planted the seeds he placed them all on automatic so they could evolute into the best form to cope with the environment that they would be living in.

Answer 3

Darwin was NOT a racist. Even by the standards of the time his view of such matters was unusually liberal.

Having observed how animal species compete and fight for dominance, he expressed the opinion that the expansionism of whites (going on all over the world at the time) would probably lead to black people being wiped out.

And HE REGRETTED THIS, and thought it was cruel and unfortunate.

CD

Answer 4

Bigotry can at least have some good effects though. While it may, as you imply, keep christians firmly in the dark ages, it was a good thing in 1945.

Hitler condemned some aspects of physics as "jewish" science and would not support them. These of course were precisely the bits he needed to make an atom bomb. Without this prejudice, he would almost certainly have got it first - all the original research was by Europeans in Nazi occupied states after all.

The truth that science is reproducibly observable and blind to the character of the scientists that discovered it was lost on him.

Answer 5

Yes I don't believe in evolution because Darwin said so or anyone else merely said so. It's just that the theory is scientifically accepted and backed up by overwhelming evidence. That's all matters.

And by the way, Bible is more racist text than anything else, that's not what I think... that's what everyone "knows".

Answer 6

Bigotry is never a good thing. Hitler was a big fan of America's sterilizing of the criminals and the mentally handicapped.He took this vile idea to its end by trying to slaughter an entire human race. Bigotry begets bigotry. By the way the word Bigot came from the German Missionaries whom always exclaim Bie Gott! (By God).The natives took to using this as a derisive term for them.

Answer 7

Exactly. They make the mistake of thinking we worship Darwin, and then point out his quite-human flaws as if that would crumble the theory - because it would in their case. However, they don't understand that we don't worship him - we just think he had a good idea once.

Answer 8

it is happerning now we are taller no than we where 200yrs ago