Religion's Dark Side, and Evolution's

In chapter 11 of "Mein Kampf" to the end of the book Hitler goes on and on about his racist theories. Like I said he was a Creationist and a Darwinist.

And most of the native Americans died from disease. They Spanish certainly didn't intend that.

"To reiterate, whether Archaeopteryx evolved from one particular line of reptiles, or a different one, is not the prediction of evolution."

Someone needs to let this creationist know.....'A story of evolution with more ancient roots links the dinosaurs of old to today's birds. It started with the iconic winged dinosaur, called Archaeopteryx, of 150 million years ago, evolving as the world's first-known flying proto-bird. "Birds, including Archaeopteryx, are classified as feathered dinosaurs," says Kevin Padian, a UC Berkeley paleontologist who specializes in their evolution. "We definitely have seen a progression of evolution in the feather types of these dinosaurs, beginning with simple hairlike structures, to branched and downy forms and then to feathers with vanes, barbs and a central stalk"'.

These guys don't get it either!

N. Schuster:

In Ch. 11 of Mein Kampf, Hitler spends the first couple segment gibbering about how it is only natural for races to mate with their own kind and tries to imply that other human races are essentially different species. Then he moves on to Aryan superiority and berating the Jews.

At no point does he quote, cite, or apply evolutionary theory (which is about species alteration by environmental adaptation). Indeed, he wastes his time trying to imply that the Aryans are the superior race based on the long debunked ideas which no reputable biologist or geneticist believes now.

ABUNDANT evidence, easily found, demonstrates Hitler's Creationist and non-Darwinian orientation.

As the British Center for Science Education notes:

"Hitler was a self-taught man and his system was his own, concocted piecemeal from the leavings of others, filtered at third- and fourth-hand through the cheap pamphlet and leaflet literature of Viennese politics and elaborated in the endless arguments on the Meldeannstrasse, arguments which nearly brought about his permanent exclusion from the hostel on the complaints of the other inmates. Moreover, the section of Mein Kampf which sets out Hitler’s ideas on racial issues are couched in historical rather than biological-mystical terms and they represent only a section of his total ideological structure. His ideas on the primacy of race…came much more from Houston Stewart Chamberlain and the German nationalists, such publicists as F. Lange and Klaus Wagner, for example.”

Hitler was also a young-earth creationist:

"This planet will, as it did thousands of years ago, move through the ether devoid of men."

"The result of all racial crossing is therefore in brief always the following: To bring about such a development is, then, nothing else but to sin against the will of the Eternal Creator."

The goal of the "folkish government", then, Hitler declares is to "finally to put an end to the constant and continuous original sin of racial poisoning, and to give the Almighty Creator beings such as He Himself created."

"The folkish-minded man, in particular," Hitler concludes, "has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will."

Hitler was not an evolutionist or "Darwinist" as any rational individual can readily ascertain. He's spewing Creationist garbage consistently throughout. Try to peg him as a "Darwinist," but as all rational, educated historians and scientists know, you are plouging the tide.

As for the Native Americans and the very nice Conquistadors consider the following information, for instance: "A Spanish missionary, Bartolome de las Casas, described eye-witness accounts of mass murder, torture and rape. Author Barry Lopez, summarizing Las Casas' report wrote:

"One day, in front of Las Casas, the Spanish dismembered, beheaded, or raped 3000 people. 'Such inhumanities and barbarisms were committed in my sight,' he says, 'as no age can parallel....' The Spanish cut off the legs of children who ran from them. They poured people full of boiling soap. They made bets as to who, with one sweep of his sword, could cut a person in half. They loosed dogs that 'devoured an Indian like a hog, at first sight, in less than a moment.' They used nursing infants for dog food." ( cf. http://www.religioustolerance.org/genocide5.htm)

Sure sounds like those Spaniards were SO nice, doesn't it? They couldn't give horse spit if the sub-human Native Americans, in their opinion, sickened and died. They'd just say, "Ad Majorum Dei Gloriam!"

If you ID Creationists had paid attention during school, maybe you'd have learned something useful besides Conquistador Apologetics.