Was evolution meant to justify Racism....?

Question

Those with darker skin were closer to ape family and white skin was superior? If no, then why did evolutionist capture the aborigines and kept him a cage with apes to prove human evolution.

Answer 1

No it was meant to find some credible way to explain our existence and provide some factual evidence for a way we developed besides just saying a figure created us. Hope this helps!

Answer 2

If you believe people with darker skin to be less evolved or a lower evolutionary life form- you are either a racist or just uninformed. Dark skin humans and light skin humans are equally as evolved.

When dark skinned humans migrated northward into what is now europe and scandinavia, the lack of sufficient sunlight was the culprit. Their skin did not convert a sufficient amount of sunlight into vitamin D. Lighter skin is more sensitive to the sun, and does a better job at converting this hormone/vitamin. Without sufficient vitamin D, a person gets rickets and likely dies in child birth or isn't able to reproduce well. So, those with lighter skin prospered in the northern latitudes more so than darker skinned people. A simple adaptation which, while it doesn't in itself prove evolution, is an excellent example of an adaptation.

Answer 3

In the early 20th century, science was actually used to justify lesser treatment of people of African descent. Scientists used skull shape as a means of comparison and noted that African skulls were closer to the shape of that of apes and Caucasians had flatter skulls. They assumed, therefore, that Africans were closer to apes and subhuman. At that time, this research was used as a means of subjugating the race.

Since then, this research has been, of course, discredited. There is no evidence that one race is any less capable than any other.

The reason for long ago actions of some evolutionists is an attempt to apply their research to why different humans look different, they wanted evidence that other differences (other than social differences) existed. They had biased outlooks and opinions. That doesn't make it right, but it was an attitude of some in this community a long long time ago.

Answer 4

First of all, evolution is meant to improve a species as the environment changes. Secondly, not all apes have dark skin. Look at the chimp, our closest relative. They have typically white faces and dark body hair. Lastly, Evolutionists from that long ago had no idea about how it worked yet. This is why they created crazy experiments like the one you mentioned. race differences were not understood in the same way then as they are now. Scientists now realize that all humans are the same species.

Answer 5

Actually, evolution is about keeping each species perfectly adapted to its own changing environment. It says nothing about which species is superior or inferior to another. Since all humanity is descended from the same group of mutant African apes, any differences between the races occurred long after we diverged from our hairy cousins. Again, there is simply no way evolution can be used to justify slavery because Natural Selection depends on how well a species survives and reproduces within its particular environment. Evolution has nothing to do with the social consequences of competing one variant of a species against another. ...and history records that Darwin himself was seriously opposed to slavery.

Answer 6

Life results from the non-random survival of randomly varing replicators. Nothing about rasism there. Even in nature poodles show no displeasure in huskies because they are closer related to wolves. Evolution tells where we come from, and racism is just an invention of mankind. If you need further proof, slavery was around long before Darwin, and it seems that in the 150 years past The Origin of Species, slavery, and much racism is going away.

Answer 7

You are the most ignorant asshole I have ever seen, Evolution was intended to discredit the fact that God created the heavens and the the earth, and all man kind, whites and blacks, all Man Kind, See if we humans can believe that we once were animals then we must still be but the bible tells me he made man in his image and Gods not an Ape
Gen 1:26 ¶ And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth . Gen 1:27 So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them . Church people who have compromised with evolutionism because they thought science had proven it are people who need to be freed from that lie immediately! Evolutionism is demonstrably a contra-scientific myth!

There is not now, nor has there ever been, nor will there ever be, ONE single piece of incontrovertible evidence that macro-evolution has happened. Not ONE PIECE! Anyone who says otherwise can be shown to be lying. More, every known observational fact and every tried and true scientific law shows that evolutionism is pure mythology masquerading as science
Darwin’s theory of evolution is exactly that: a theory, with little in the way of hard scientific evidence to back it up. Yet it has been accepted almost as an article of faith in the modern world. However, as the following shows there are many within the scientific community who have voiced serious doubts over what still remains no more than a theory. Don’t expect the mainstream media to make too much of the following though; the powers that be would rather we accept Darwin’s theory as a proven fact rather than question it. Because that might lead us to question other accepted notions and dogmas, which in turn might even prompt us to start thinking for ourselves. And that is something the powers that be do not want to happen; their power rests on our acquiescence, which in turn depends on our ignorance, cultivated and conditioned by the mainstream media. Ed.

An asterisk ( * ) by a name indicates that person is not known to be a creationist.

"The Darwinian theory of descent has not a single fact to confirm it in the realm of nature. It is not the result of scientific research, but purely the product of imagination."—*Dr. Fleischman [Erlangen zoologist].

Although modern history credits Charles Darwin with the "discovery" of the Theory of Evolution, in fact this was proposed nearly two centuries earlier by John Locke, a prominent member of the Royal Society in England.(1) It also appears that Darwin’s grandfather apparently first proposed the theory that his grandson would adopt.(2)

Answer 8

No.

In fact, science has proven that it is just the distance from the equator that a people lives that determines the color of their skin and not "those with darker skin were closer to ape family."

It is ignorance, fear, and hatred that justifies racism, not science.

Racism is against the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church:

Created in the image of the one God and equally endowed with rational souls, all men have the same nature and the same origin. Redeemed by the sacrifice of Christ, all are called to participate in the same divine beatitude: all therefore enjoy an equal dignity.

The equality of men rests essentially on their dignity as persons and the rights that flow from it:

Every form of social or cultural discrimination in fundamental personal rights on the grounds of sex, race, color, social conditions, language, or religion must be curbed and eradicated as incompatible with God's design.

For more information, see Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 1934 and following: http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt3sect1chpt2art3.htm#1934

With love in Christ.

Answer 9

Please buddy, don't push to those thing again.I am doing evolutional biology it does'nt talk about that. check this.........


The universe is constructed from a multitude of various materials. It is dynamic in form and shape due to a multitude of various processes and interactions between these materials. To the human, however, in his need to establish his place and purpose in the universe, the most important material is biological and the most important process is evolution, far it is only here that the human can learn to understand himself, an understanding that is vital to his survival.

Wise men, psychologists, philosophers and theologians have surmised and conjectured about the human over the centuries, and still do, but the truth about the human may be found only through factual knowledge. That factual knowledge lies in a process called evolution. The human is what evolution made him.

Answer 10

the theory of evolution says NOTHING about blacks being closer to apes than whites are. i don't know where you got that. it does say that people in mainly african regions developed much darker skin pigmentations, most likely to protect them more from the strong sun in that area.
the reason some wacked out evolutionist captured a HUMAN and put him in a cage is because he was a racist weirdo. just like in england people paid money to see mental patients in cages and traps. they're sick people.

Answer 11

Of course not.

You might as well ask if gravity was discovered to justify murder by pushing someone off a cliff.

I don't think Darwin ever claimed people with different skin colours had different relationships within the ape family. He knew the definition of a species and all humans are the same.

People used it to justify eugenics, slavery and other evils but so what? Scientific truths can be double edged swords but you can't complain about the science itself which is morally neutral. The bible had been used to justify slavery for a lot longer.