Cambridge UP Book Airbrushes Darwin’s Contribution to Scientific Racism

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 24 February 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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On today’s ID the Future historian Richard Weikart (Cal State Stanislaus) dissects a recent Cambridge University Press book on social Darwinism by Jeffrey O’Connell and Michael Ruse. Weikart, author of Hitler’s Ethic, From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler’s Religion, and The Death of Humanity, says a major shortcoming of the Cambridge UP book is the authors’ attempt to put as much distance as possible between Darwin and eugenics thinking, and between Darwin and Hitler. The new book paints Darwin follower Herbert Spencer as the eugenics-championing bad guy and contends that Darwin and Darwinism had little or no influence on Hitler’s warped master-race ethic. Weikart patiently highlights some key evidence to the contrary, including statements front and center in Hitler’s writing. Did Darwin cause Hitler? No. Would Darwin have approved Read More ›

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1:02.0	Hello, I'm Andrew McDermott. Today my guest is Richard Weicart,
1:07.0	emeritus professor of history at California State University Stanislaus,
1:12.0	and a senior fellow with the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture.
1:16.0	He is author of From Darwin to Hitler, Hitler's Ethic and the Death of Humanity.
1:21.0	His most recent book, 2016's Hitler's religion, shows that Hitler
1:26.2	was a pantheist who deified nature and based his morality on the laws of nature, especially
1:32.2	the Darwinian struggle for existence.
1:35.0	Richard, welcome to the show.
1:37.0	Yeah, thanks for having me on.
1:39.0	You welcome.
1:40.0	Recently you wrote a three-part series at evolution news.org about a new book recently
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