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Evolutionary racism

2009-03-23T02:24:13Z

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'''Evolutionary racism''' refers to a [[racist]] philosophy based on [[Charles Darwin]]'s [[Evolution|evolutionary theory]]. It assumes that men have continually evolved, and thus some races are more evolved than others. It replaces [[Christian]] [[morality]] with the [[atheistic]] "survival of the fittest."

== Origin ==
Evolution establishes a "scientific" rationale for racism by extending the "great chain of being" to humanity. Just as animal species are ordered into a hierarchy according development, so too the "races of men" are described as being more or less developed than others.

Evolutionists then extend the doctrine of [[survival of the fittest]] to humanity. Removing religious morality and replacing it with the laws of nature, they claim that just as the varieties of animals struggle to survive, so shall the varieties of man, with the strong dominating and destroying the weak.

Darwin himself was a racist and white supremacist. He predicted mass genocide from his theory, claiming:
{{cquote|At some future period not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised 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 civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as the baboon, instead of as now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla.<ref name="DoM6">[http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext00/dscmn10.txt The Descent of Man], chapter VI</ref>}}

Likewise he compared native populations to animals: {{cquote|The difference between a Tierra del Fuegian and a European is greater than between a Tierra del Fuegian and a beast<ref>http://www.answersingenesis.org/creation/v16/i1/darwin.asp</ref>}}

== Racist influence ==
Darwin's writings, which became very influential in the late 19th century, provided an argument for racism. Harvard University's staunch evolutionist [[Stephen Jay Gould]] stated, "Biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1859, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory."<ref>http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=268</ref>
[[Stephen Gould]] also admitted the following about the [[Atheism|atheist]] [[Ernst Haeckel]]:
{{cquote|[[Ernst Haeckel|Haeckel]] was the chief apostle of evolution in [[Germany]].... His evolutionary racism; his call to the German people for [[racial purity]] and unflinching devotion to a "just" state; his belief that harsh, inexorable laws of evolution ruled human civilization and nature alike, conferring upon favored races the right to dominate others; the irrational [[mysticism]] that had always stood in strange communion with his brave words about objective science - all contributed to the rise of Nazism. - Stephen J. Gould, "Ontogeny and Phylogeny," Belknap Press: Cambridge MA, 1977, pp.77-78). <ref>http://members.iinet.net.au/~sejones/social.html</ref>}}

Social Darwinism and evolutionary racism allowed "human zoos" to proliferate in the late 1800s, wherein a supposed evolutionary progression of humans - from apes, to Africans, to West Europeans - were placed in a line. African and other tribal populations were routinely described as more akin to savage primates than Europeans.

== Hitler and genocide ==
[[Image:Hitlerspeech.jpg‎|thumb|300px|right|[[Adolph Hitler]]]]‎
Darwin's evolutionary racism would have enormous impact in early 20th century, eventually leading to [[eugenics]] programs (first devised by Darwin's cousin [[Francis Galton]]) in American and Europe, while influencing [[Adolph Hitler]], who wrote:
{{cquote|The Germans were the higher race, destined for a glorious evolutionary future. For this reason it was essential that the [[Jew]]s should be segregated, otherwise mixed marriages would take place. Were this to happen, all nature’s efforts “to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being may thus be rendered futile”<ref>Bergman, Jerry. [http://www.creationontheweb.com/content/view/1675 "Darwinism and the Nazi race Holocaust"] Creationontheweb.com</ref>}}
{{cquote|If nature does not wish that weaker individuals should mate with the stronger, she wishes even less that a superior race should intermingle with an inferior one; because in such cases all her efforts, throughout hundreds of thousands of years, to establish an evolutionary higher stage of being, may thus be rendered futile. <ref>Muehlenberg, Bill. [http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2008/09/15/a-church-apology-to-darwin/ "A Church Apology to Darwin?"] BillMuehlenberg.com.</ref>}}

== Present impact ==
While the concept of "race" has since been proven by [[biology]] to be nonsense, Evolutionary Racism remains very strong amongst bigoted [[white supremacist]] groups, who continue to see race in evolutionary terms and believe in the superior advancement of western "races".

Racism remains common among evolutionists, despite attempts to hide it:
{{cquote|Many of the early settlers of Australia considered the Australian Aborigines to be less intelligent than the ‘white man,’ because aborigines had not evolved as far as whites on the evolutionary scale. In fact, the Hobart Museum in Tasmania in 1984 listed this as one of the reasons why early white settlers killed as many aborigines as they could in that state.|||Ken Ham, Evolution: The Lie (1987), p. 86.}}

== See also ==
* [[Social effects of the theory of evolution]]
* [[Theory of evolution and liberalism]]

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== References ==
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[[Category:Evolution]]

Kay Bailey Hutchison

2009-03-23T02:15:06Z

AndrewE: A lady never tells her age... let's show a little respect!

[[Image:Kay Bailey Hutchison.jpg|thumb|right|Kay Bailey Hutchison.jpg]]
'''[[Kay Bailey Hutchison]]''' (who is in her sixties) is a [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[United States of America|U.S.]] [[United States Senate|senator]] from [[Texas]]. She is the first female senator from Texas and has held office from 1993 to the present.

==External Links==

[http://hutchison.senate.gov/ Sen. Hutchison's Official Web Site]

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Freeman Dyson

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'''Freeman Dyson''' (1923–present), is an [[atomic scientist]], [[mathematician]], and [[inventor]], best known today for his contributions to [[science fiction]], and for his refinements to the bagless [[vacuum cleaner]].

Dyson was born in [[England]] in 1923. He received an honorary doctorate from Bates College, in 1990. During [[World War II]], Dyson flew for the [[RAF]] Bomber Command at Wyton. After the war, during the [[Eisenhower]] [[administration]], he worked on [[Project Orion]], a [[top]]-[[secret]] military project exploring the concept of nuclear flight, an idea which Dyson himself had proposed, in the 1960 science-fiction essay "Search for Artificial Stellar Sources of [[Infrared]] [[Radiation]]".

Dyson is also known for his vacuum cleaner designs, all of which are "[[bag]]less" (meaning that they collect dust and dirt in a hollow cylinder rather than in a disposable vacuum bag), and many of which feature a rotating [[sphere]] instead of fixed [[wheel]]s or casters. The Dyson sphere is one of the most interesting innovations to come out of England, in the past fifty years.

[[Liberal]] activist and political candidate [[Ralph Nader]], has repeatedly attested that Dyson vacuum cleaners are unsafe for operation around children, due to their high suction power. Dyson has laughed off these claims, joking that, ''"Nader abhors a vacuum."''

==See also==
*[[Geodesic Dome]]

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Florence Nightingale

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'''Florence Nightingale''' (1820 – 13 August 1910) was an English pioneering [[nurse]] during the [[Crimean War]] who was so nice to all the soldiers she treated that an award was named after her. She was called "Nightingale" because she flitted from bed to bedside like a little bird, and also because it was her surname.

She was popularly known as "The Lady with the Lamp", and was a pioneer of modern nursing and statistics. She was an early innovator of what are now known as Pie Charts (she used them to breakdown the distribution of patients in her wards by type of disease), and Gannt Charts (she used them to help schedule her nurses.)

== See also ==

*[[Polymath]]

[[Category:Women|Nightingale, Florence]]