Darwinian Racism (with Richard Weikart)

Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture

Talbot School of Theology at Biola University / Sean McDowell & Scott Rae

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🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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What exactly is the connection between Darwinian evolutionary theory and what is often called “social Darwinism” that emerged out of it—that includes eugenics and race based selection and preferences. Historian Richard Weikart has been with us before on the ideological roots of Naziism, and he extends his past work to connect the philosophy underlying Darwinian evolutionary theory and the race based implications coming out of it, both in Nazi Germany and the current white nationalist movement...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Think Biblically, Conversations on Faith and Culture,
0:05.3	podcast from Talbot School of Theology here at Biola University.
0:08.6	I'm your host Scott Ray, Dean of Faculty, and Professor of Christian Ethics.
0:12.3	And I'm your co-host, Sean McDowell Professor of Christian Ethics.
0:12.5	And I'm your co-host Sean McDow, Professor of Apologetics.
0:15.5	We're here today with Dr. Richard Weicert, who is a repeated guest.
0:18.8	We've had him on several times before.
0:20.8	Very provocative work that he's done.
0:22.8	Dr. Walker is the emeritus professor of history
0:25.6	at Cal State University Stanislaus,
0:28.2	and has written a terrific new book that is sort of the next,
0:32.1	Richard, I think it would be fair to say it's in the next phase of what you've been working on for many years,
0:38.0	on the connection between Darwinism and the Nazi ideology of Adolf Hitler.
0:44.5	But in this book called Darwinian Racism, you've expanded the context and your subtitle
0:51.0	I think captures it really nicely how Darwinism influenced
0:53.8	Hitler, Nazism, and white nationalism so bringing it really up to date today.
0:59.8	So Richard welcome we're so glad to have you on with. We're so delighted to see this new book come out and really looking forward to our listeners having a chance to hear from you a little bit more about what went into this.
1:12.0	Yeah, thanks for having me on.
1:13.0	It's great to be with you.
1:14.0	Yeah, now you've written quite a bit.
1:16.0	We've had you on before on the things that contributed to Hitler's Nazi ideology,
1:21.0	but tell us a little bit more about what sparked your interest in this area sort of at the beginning when you first started working on this
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