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Is the evolution theory racist?

By GERALD MCKIBBEN
I BELIEVE a recent Associated Press story titled “Creation Museum founder releases book calling evolution theory racist” was inaccurate and misleading. The writer, Dylan Lovan, put the usual spin on the topic in an attempt to discredit Ken Ham’s position that evolutionary theory is racist. To this end he quotes David Schultz, a biology Professor, who said that Darwin had a history of “speaking out against slavery.” “Darwin was not a racist,” he further quoted Schultz.

In defense of Darwin — Internet sites maintained by ardent Darwinists attempt to defend his racial views. They quote his writings that decried slavery and the mistreatment of indigenous individuals by European explorers. But they failed to point out that you can be a racist and still oppose slavery.

Missed the point — I think the writer of that AP story and the sources he quoted all missed the point. The basic premise of evolutionary dogma presupposes a naturalistic process that can be explained totally without reference to the Supernatural. Although most people in our country have heard of Charles Darwin’s famous book, I’m guessing few have read it. Even fewer probably know its full title: The Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection, Or the Preservation of Favorable Races in the Struggle for Life.

Hitler and evolution — And if Survival of the Fittest is the supreme rule of the Universe, who’s to say it’s wrong for a despot like Hitler to try to improve the human condition for all time by eliminating those whom he considered “inferior”? If superior races survive, won’t the inferior ones perish? If so, then he was just helping things along; speeding up the inevitable. No, we are told in Lovan’s article, quoting Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, that “Hitler rarely mentioned evolution.” Hitler also mentioned God, we are also told, though I’m not sure what this adds to the argument.

Darwinian influence on Nazi policies — Biology professor Dr. Jerry Berg writes “Leading Nazis, and early 1900 influential German biologists, revealed in their writings that Darwin’s theory and publications had a major influence upon Nazi race policies. Hitler believed that the human gene pool could be improved by using selective breeding similar to how farmers breed superior cattle strains. In the formulation of their racial policies, Hitler’s government relied heavily upon Darwinism, especially the elaborations by Spencer and Haeckel.”

NO, THE ARGUMENT that evolution theory is racist is not a “ploy to get evolution out of the curriculum” as reported in the AP article. Instead, the evidence adequately supports the contention that it is racist, unpopular as this is among Darwin followers.

Darwinists are crying like stuck pigs over the Ben Stein movie “Expelled,” which opened last week in the top 10 in box office receipts. This movie is filled with examples of those who have lost their jobs, mostly within academia, because they dared to question the Darwinian dogma.

Most Darwinians seem to detest the notion that there may be an intelligent designer behind the origin of life. And yet, as we saw in “Expelled,” leading evolutionists have not the foggiest notion of how life began.

Gerald McKibben is a retired research scientist from Starkville, Miss. geraldmckibben@bellsouth.net.