Re: [asa] More on the Darwin-Hitler link

Panda's thumb had a go-around on the topic at hand over a year ago. You
might be interested on their take:
<http://www.pandasthumb.org/archives/2005/05/from_darwin_to.html>

A1999 brief paper by Lenny Flank, "Creationists, Hitler and Evolution"
at <http://www.geocities.com/lflank/nazis.htm> is helpful.

Jack Haas

by Lenny Flank

Rich Blinne wrote:
>
> On 8/23/06, *Carol or John Burgeson* <burgytwo@juno.com
> <mailto:burgytwo@juno.com>> wrote:
>
> This piece of nonsensical email was rec'd today:
>
> Burgy
>
> Date: August 22, 2006
> From: Coral Ridge Ministries
> By: John Aman
>
> Coral Ridge Ministries Answers Anti-Defamation League Blast
> Against New
> Darwin-Hitler TV Special
>
>
> Coral Ridge was responding only partially to the following. Note again
> Francis Collins' quote inter alia.
>
>
> 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."
>
>
>
>
>

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