[RussP]

I'm surprised this article hasn't been posted already, but I could not find it.

I just saw the movie, and I thought it was great.

As David Berlinski said in the movie, Darwinism is not "sufficient" to produce something like Nazism, but it does seem to be "necessary." Obviously not all evolutionists are Nazis, but all Nazis may be evolutionists.

As for those who will almost surely point out that Hitler touted Christianity on occasion, that is largely irrelevant to the point here. Hitler extreme hostility to Christianity is well documented, and the lip service he occasionally paid to it was clearly a cynical ploy to gain or consolidate power. Darwinism, on the other hand, he truly believed in, and he sought to actively advance its "progress."

Have a ball!

[Soliton]

To be fair to Darwin, the future National Socialists knew him largely as interpreted by Haeckel. It's just that in posing "Judaism" as a scientific and technical problem in a godless world, Haeckel invited others to suggest technical solutions, and history records that they did just that.

Darwin's works do not mention Jews. Anti-semitism pre-dates Darwin. German Christian Ministers supported the persecution of the Jews.

[Coyoteman]

Courtesy of DarwinCentral.org

[Coyoteman]

If ID is science, and the issue of Expelled is a debate over who does science in academia, why are so many of these articles posted in the Religion Forum?

I thought we were all supposed to pretend ID has no connection to religion.

[Rummyfan]

Nazism would never have developed its genocidal characteristics without Darwinism....

[allmendream]

In Public Hitler touted Christianity as a reason to hate the Jews.

Apparently according to one person who wrote after Hitler's death, in his heart of hearts he hated Christianity.

But when we speak of what motivated Nazis, rather than what might have motivated Hitler in private; wouldn't it be prudent to look at the actual words that the Nazi leaders used to whip up Jew hatred?

For an so called obvious historic link there seems to be surprisingly sparse material linking the two that was written or spoken contemporaneously.

Did they say...

“We are all descendants of apes, but we are the SUPERIOR descendants of apes.”

Or did they say....

“We are the Master Race, the Chosen of God, not those *&$#% Jews!”

Well?

Can anyone come up with any PUBLIC pronouncement of a Nazi leader whipping up Jew hatred using Evolutionary rhetoric? There sure are plenty of examples of them calling for revenge for Jesus’s “Blood upon the cross”. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Beuller?

[tacticalogic]

Obviously not all evolutionists are Nazis, but all Nazis may be evolutionists.

If they really believed it, they'd consider the fact that they lost the war evidence of the inferiority of the Aryan race.

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

It’s not heavy-handed at all - much more could have been said about it. Look at my FR homepage.

[attiladhun2]

Amen to that. Alfred Rosenberg, the Baltic German creator of the Nazi Party, was an atheist. SS members were required to renounce their Christian faith, if they wanted to advance in the organization. As the Blitzkrieg rolled through Belgium and France, it was common for Waffen SS members to desecrate churches. They particularly enjoyed smashimg crucifixes.

[Guenevere]

Quite the opposite...
Expelled does not go easy on the Darwin-Nazi connection.....not at all!
Did this person actually see the movie?