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Certainly you must know that Eugenicists from Margaret Sanger to Hitler have used Evolution to excuse their evil schemes.

The fact that races can mean more than - but still include - differences in human development does not take away from that fact.

Certainly you must know that Eugenicists from Margaret Sanger to Hitler have used Evolution to excuse their evil schemes.

And terrorists use the science of chemistry to manufacture explosives to kill civilians. What's the point here?

Whether or not people misuse scientific knowledge has nothing to do with whether or not it is true. Not only that, but any evolutionary biologist will tell you that eugenics was based on the misunderstanding of evolution - all the more reason to make sure it is taught accurately.

"Certainly you must know that Eugenicists from Margaret Sanger to Hitler have used Evolution to excuse their evil schemes."

Certainly you know that Hitler wasn't an evolutionist but a creationist, right?

"Anyone who dares to lay hands on the highest image of the Lord commits sacrilege against the benevolent Creator of this miracle and contributes to the expulsion from paradise."

" It is a sin against the will of the Eternal Creator if His most gifted beings by the hundreds and hundreds of thousands are allowed to degenerate in the present proletarian morass, while Hottentots and Zulu Kaffirs are trained for intellectual professions."

"What we must fight for is to safeguard the existence and reproductionof our race and our people, the sustenance of our children and the purityof our blood, the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that ourpeople may mature for the fulfillment of the mission allotted it by the Creator of the universe."

He wasn't a Christian Creationist, but he did believe that God's most special creation was the Aryan Race and that it was a sin to destroy it. He didn't believe in evolution.

As for Sanger, she (as is true of most eugenicists)was more influenced by the new science of Mendelian genetics than evolutionary theory. That doesn't make Mendel the progenitor of race policies than it does Darwin.

"Certainly you must know that Eugenicists from Margaret Sanger to Hitler have used Evolution to excuse their evil schemes."

Would you like a list of those who have used religion to "excuse their evil schemes"? Bandwidth is limited and the list is extensive. And really, what do such lists prove anyway?

Certainly you must know that Eugenicists from Margaret Sanger to Hitler have used Evolution to excuse their evil schemes.

Christians like Jim Jones and the Spanish Inquisition have used Christianity to plot evil as well. That does not make all Christians evil. This is a logical fallacy.