Posted on 07/08/2021 11:14:56 AM PDT by Heartlander
Given evolution’s racist baggage, you might think the theory’s proponents would be somewhat abashed to accuse the critics of Darwin of “white supremacy.” Apparently not. Writing in Scientific American, Allison Hopper goes there: “Denial of Evolution Is a Form of White Supremacy.” Who is Allison Hopper? She is a white lady, a “filmmaker and designer with a master’s degree in educational design from New York University. Early in her career, she worked on PBS documentaries.” Ms. Hopper “has presented on evolution at the Big History Conference in Amsterdam and Chautauqua, among other places.” Having been handed a platform by America’s foremost popular science publication, she writes:
I want to unmask the lie that evolution denial is about religion and recognize that at its core, it is a form of white supremacy that perpetuates segregation and violence against Black bodies.
White people like this always talk about “Black bodies” instead of Black (or black) people. The idea here is that our human ancestors, who created the first cultures, came out of Africa and were dark-skinned. Supposedly evolution skeptics wish to deny this history, holding that a “continuous line of white descendants segregates white heritage from Black bodies. In the real world, this mythology translates into lethal effects on people who are Black. Fundamentalist interpretations of the Bible are part of the ‘fake news’ epidemic that feeds the racial divide in our country.”
She concludes,
As we move forward to undo systemic racism in every aspect of business, society, academia and life, let’s be sure to do so in science education as well.
Of course there have been, and still are, religious people who doubted evolution for religious rather than scientific reasons while at the same time holding racist views. The idea, though, that racism can be logically supported from the Bible is ludicrous. “As the biblical story goes,” writes Ms. Hopper, “the curse or mark of Cain for killing his brother was a darkening of his descendants’ skin.” There’s whatsoever nothing in the “biblical story” to that effect. Handed a copy of the Bible, no reasonable person would come away with a conclusion of “white supremacy.”
A person who absorbed the history of evolutionary thinking from Charles Darwin to today, and took it all as inerrant, would be an entirely different story. If you had nothing more to go on than Darwin’s legacy, a conclusion of white supremacy would follow as a matter of course.
Ms. Hopper is concerned about children and their education, but, in concealing Darwinism’s foul past, her version of history is wildly inaccurate. From not long after the theory of evolution by natural selection was first proposed by Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace, evolution took two different paths. That of Wallace, who split with Darwin over human exceptionalism and came to espouse a proto-intelligent design view, supported equal human dignity regardless of skin color.
That of Darwin followed the pseudo-logic of the purposelessly branching tree. Humanity did not advance all as one, equally, Darwin taught. Instead, as he explained in the Descent of Man, Africans were caught somewhere between ape and human, destined to be liquidated by the more advanced peoples: “The civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races through the world.” Darwin did not celebrate this, but he recognized it as what he saw to be a fact.
His cousin Francis Galton drew from Darwin’s work the pseudo-scientific idea that races could be improved through “eugenics.” That became mainstream science right up until it was embraced and put into practice by the Nazis, who justified a Final Solution with “scientific” evolutionary arguments. Eugenic solutions put into place in the United States against African-Americans, and others, including mass forced sterilizations, provided a warm-up and education for the Nazis.
In the U.S. from the start of the 20th century, respectable scientists at top universities, echoed by the New York Times, supported caging and displaying Africans and others to educate the public about the truths of Darwinism. Before Hitler, Germans committed genocide in Africa, citing Darwinian theory as their justification. Political scientist John West tells these stories in a pair of widely viewed and critically recognized documentaries, Human Zoos and Darwin, Africa, and Genocide. Speaking of racism and eugenics, West has also traced “The Line Running from Charles Darwin through Margaret Sanger to Planned Parenthood.” As to education, the biology textbook at the center of the 1925 Scopes trial taught both Darwinism and white supremacy.
Today’s actual white supremacists, represented by the Alt-Right and various neo-Nazi groups, are warmly disposed to Darwinism, as a glance at their websites will show. Like Hitler before them, they see in evolutionary theory a justification for racial hatred. Allison Hopper leaves ALL OF THIS OUT, both from her Scientific American article and from a simplistic video on YouTube, aimed at kids, “Human Evolution and YOU!” And she has the nerve to smear skepticism about Darwinian theory as “white supremacist.”
I am only skimming through a few points of the relevant history. There is much more. Ms. Hopper is either deeply ignorant or deeply dishonest. I’ll assume the former. Her concern for “Black bodies” is well and good. What about a concern for the truth, which matters, or should matter, to people of all skin colors?
This is important. In coming days at Evolution News, we will be sharing some of our past coverage of evolution and its racist past and present. The phrase “white supremacy” has already been weaponized in politics. Now it is going to war in science education. The aim is to feed children — their minds, not their bodies — a massive falsehood. This must be resisted.
…Man, like every other animal, has no doubt advanced to his present high condition through a struggle for existence consequent on his rapid multiplication; and if he is to advance still higher, it is to be feared that he must remain subject to a severe struggle. Otherwise he would sink into indolence, and the more gifted men would not be more successful in the battle of life than the less gifted. Hence our natural rate of increase, though leading to many and obvious evils, must not be greatly diminished by any means. There should be open competition for all men; and the most able should not be prevented by laws or customs from succeeding best and rearing the largest number of offspring.""We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed, and the sick; we institute poor-laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands, who from a weak constitution would formerly have succumbed to small-pox. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but excepting in the case of man himself, hardly any one is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed.”
-Charles Darwin, Descent of Man
In the Darwinian view of humans as animals, what would cause us to stop practicing animal husbandry within our own species? Reduce the meaning of "human" to "just another animal", and eugenics is fair game. Scientific data is well supported in animal husbandry. Eugenics is only abhorrent to those who recognize that there is something transcendently special about humans.
In the early decades of the 20th century, Human Zoos were created where thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display and touted as “missing links” between man and apes. Their public display was arranged with the enthusiastic support of the most elite members of the scientific community, and it was promoted uncritically by America's leading newspapers.
With Darwinism, there is always an inferior race and a superior race - there must be an intermediate bridging the gap - or as Darwin states:
“At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked 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 a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”If Darwin allowed Dawkins to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist then he also allowed scientists to be an intellectually fulfilled racist.
- Charles Darwin, Descent of Man
Racism and eugenics were the hallmarks of the theory of human evolution in the early 20th century, representing a clear consensus of evolutionary biologists as well as other scientists and leaders in higher education and government (endorsed by the Supreme Court in 1926). Eugenics is an ugly part of American history that was taught to our children (See: Hunter’s Civic Biology ) - a movement that caused the compulsory sterilization laws in 30 U.S. states that resulted in more than 60,000 sterilizations of disabled.
At the core of the current theory of evolution is materialism/naturalism and this is a worldview with consequences. For example, as Stephen Meyer points out -the constitution assumes:
In contrast, under the materialistic picture of reality pervasive in our culture, you get this:
These are not Conservative principles and is partially to blame for our current state of affairs.
Bkmk
There are burning hot topics contained in accurate summaries of the conclusions Darwin reached. As others have said, the writings past the simple Darwin animal stories make survival of the fittest and favored races predictions that would be banned by all social media and school systems. One is that there will still be a racial school achievement gap in this era and it will never close. Other topics are even hotter.
I won’t even cite them here.
BLM types had better hope they never get widely published, although the Leftists praise Darwin and evolution, stupidly.
Books by Charles Darwin:
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life.
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-believer.
The Voyage of the Beagle.
The Descent of Man.
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin.
That article is biased. It capitalizes black and lowercases White. The article has no credibility.
Eugenics is an ugly part of American history that was taught to our children (See: Hunter’s Civic Biology ) - a movement that caused the compulsory sterilization laws in 30 U.S. states that resulted in more than 60,000 sterilizations of disabled.
Compulsory sterilization was initially targeted to the clinically insane, institutionalized (unable to care for themselves) retarded persons, prison inmates and sex offenders. Women were routinely victimized in institutions and pregnancy from rape wasn’t uncommon. Unfortunately, California was one of the first to move that parents could order sterilization for ‘unruly children’. Most of those unruly, of course, being females. 96% of California’s forced sterilizations were white women and men so it would be hard to label it racist in California’s case, and more in line with sexist and the treatment of women in general as chattel property, with the word of a husband or father being the only evidence needed to institutionalize a woman for ‘hysteria.’
On the other hand, just a few years ago NC passed a law to compensate victims of their forced sterilization program which was in effect until 1974.
At its core the “theory of evolution” is racist and Satanic! Always has been. Always will be!//
/\ Bingo.
Evolutionary THEORY is
THE ORIGIN of
’ racism’.
Look at the pretzel logic below that
makes the crime the alabi.
\\I want to unmask the lie that evolution denial is about religion and recognize that at its core, it is a form of white supremacy that perpetuates segregation and violence against Black bodies.//
Christianity says there is ONE category of humans.
Darwinism says there is multiple categories , I.e. races.
Evolutionary THEORY is racist at its core.
’ white supremists’
‘ black supremists’
‘ yellow supremists’
‘ brown supremists’
‘ red supremists’
Are all evolutionists.
Are all Darwinists.
The obvious truth they want to deny is
Evolutionary THEORY is
THE ORIGIN of
’ racism’.
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That article is biased. It capitalizes black and lowercases White. The article has no credibility.
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Many members of F.R. have bought into it in their replies.
Disgusting!
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