Crossposted from My Left Wing (my first at dkos!)
http://www.myleftwing.com/...
Just when you think the American Religious Zealots can't get any more absurdly evil in their relentless pursuit of a one-religion, Christimiltiant state, they do. Coral Rodge is producing a TV special on how Hitler's Darwinism caused the Holocaust.
Yesterday a friend in Traverse City (not MSOC) alerted me to an article on Pharyngula, saying:
~snip~ The mf'ers from the ID movement are ratcheting up their attacks on evolution since they were disemboweled in the Dover decision. They are now mounting a full-out assault on science saying Darwin is responsible for Hitler, genocide, and the world's current condition. Guess the world was perfect before Chucky D arrived on the scene.~
This is nothing but a knee-jerk pavlovian rhetoric to get muscle for their idiotic Creationism, then rephrased to Intelligent Design bullshit. It has LOST in the courts, and they are pandering to a horrendous part of history to try and revoke science in schools, and replace it with (IMO) a fairy fucking tale. Separation of Church and State anyone???
http://scienceblogs.com/...
Pharyngula had a few good quotes and links I traced back.
PZ Meyers, proprietor of Pharyngula had this to say:
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The kind of social Darwinism/eugenics that Hitler favored was not evolution or Darwinism--it owes more to farming folk knowledge than to the complexity of evolutionary theory.
Not that that will matter to the people peddling the Darwin-Hitler link. I think they'd have a better case if they were arguing for a pigeon fancier-Hitler link.
Oh yeah, lets blame Darwin for Hitler, why not?
or...Maybe its Pasteur's fault. Next we should ban all teaching of microbiology too, it's not in the Bible!
as replied by Orac on that site:
Another point: Hitler frequently likened the Jews to bacteria or the tuberculosis bacilli "infecting" the German volk with a "disease" and "weakening" them. He viewed killing them as "eliminating the infection." Using such logic you could just as well blame the Holocaust on Pasteur as on Darwin. At other times he likened the Jews to a "cancer." Does that mean we could blame the Holocaust on, for instance, William Halstead, who advocated radical surgery to remove breast cancer?
Cancer surgery, no way! Medical school should be banned! Laying of the hands should be taught in public schools, right? Or is that reserved for private Holy colleges?
Their mindset is all must comply to their personal biblical views. When confronted with fact, they switch tactics to : Lets guilt them into buying into it. Guess what? This bitch was raised on Catholic guilt, and there is no way in HELL even I could swallow this absurd construction.
Backtrace to:
http://www.adl.org/...
The Anti-Defamation League vs Coral Ridge
ADL Blasts Christian Supremacist TV Special & Book Blaming Darwin For Hitler
New York, NY, August 22, 2006 ... The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today blasted a television documentary produced by Christian broadcaster Dr. D. James Kennedy's Coral Ridge Ministries that attempts to link Charles Darwin's theory of evolution to Adolf Hitler and the atrocities of the Holocaust. ADL also denounced Coral Ridge Ministries for misleading Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute for the NIH, and wrongfully using him as part of its twisted documentary, "Darwin's Deadly Legacy."
After being contacted by the ADL about his name being used to promote Kennedy's project, Dr. Collins said he is "absolutely appalled by what Coral Ridge Ministries is doing. I had NO knowledge that Coral Ridge Ministries was planning a TV special on Darwin and Hitler, and I find the thesis of Dr. Kennedy's program utterly misguided and inflammatory," he told ADL.
ADL National Director Abraham H. Foxman said in a statement:"This is an outrageous and shoddy attempt by D. James Kennedy to trivialize the horrors of the Holocaust. Hitler did not need Darwin to devise his heinous plan to exterminate the Jewish people. Trivializing the Holocaust comes from either ignorance at best or, at worst, a mendacious attempt to score political points in the culture war on the backs of six million Jewish victims and others who died at the hands of the Nazis.
"It must be remembered that D. James Kennedy is a leader among the distinct group of 'Christian Supremacists' who seek to "reclaim America for Christ" and turn the U.S. into a Christian nation guided by their strange notions of biblical law."
The documentary is scheduled to air this weekend along with the publication of an accompanying book "Evolution's Fatal Fruit: How Darwin's Tree of Life Brought Death to Millions."
A Coral Ridge Ministries press release promoting the documentary says the program "features 14 scholars, scientists, and authors who outline the grim consequences of Darwin's theory of evolution and show how his theory fueled Hitler's ovens."
Well, at least some enlightened people are hot on their so-called holy asses! Go for it ADL, I have your back. This is just douchebaggery at its worst. I want to puke. If I had any cash ADL would be getting a check about now, as well as Americans United for seperation of Church and State.
This:
and this:
DOES NOT EQUAL THIS:
OR THIS:
http://goosetheantithesis.blogspot.com/...
Another good snip on the subject comes from Aaron Kinney
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What the hell does "natural selection" have to do with mass murder? Did the Nazis have to try to adapt to the ovens like the Jews were forced to do?
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Instead, Hitler's campaign was much more analogous to Godly selection. That's because Godly selection is all about stacking the decks and not competing on a level playing field. This filth has much more in common with death camps and ovens than anything that came from Darwin's pen
Brought to you by the religious zealots, soon in a school near you.
This weeks diaries alone, on what the Religious Zealots are doing to denigrate womens' rights should make you scream. Now they have redoubled the effort to teach what might marginally pass as an exercise in "human religious philosophies" as SCIENCE, and to use that science to denigrate the millions of people who suffered and died in the holocaust.
And in my fucking opinion, tying it to the autrocity of the Holocaust and Hilter in order to add any credence to their absurd claims is the worst kind of douchebaggery!