[asa] Re: Hitler and Darwinsim: was Kennedy and the YEC Line

Granted that not all Hitler's thinking is in Mein Kampf. But if nothing
related to Darwin is in this rather long book from relatively early in his
political career then there are serious doubts about Darwin's influence on
him. It suggests that whatever he may have said about Darwin later was
simply in support of views about race &c that had already been formed. In
any case the burden of proof is on those making claims like "no Darwin, no
Hitler."

Shalom
George
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Nield" <d.nield@auckland.ac.nz>
To: "Bill Hamilton" <williamehamiltonjr@yahoo.com>
Cc: <asa@calvin.edu>; <gmurphy@raex.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:07 PM
Subject: Hitler and Darwinsim: was Kennedy and the YEC Line

> To Bill and George::
> I looked up "Hitler" in the index of Wiker's book "Moral Darwinism.". The
> is only one entry. Wiker quotes Daniel Gasman, The Scientific Origins of
> National Socialism (London, MacDonald, 1971), p. 161
> "Hitler's view on history, politics, religion, Christianity, nature,
> eugenics, science, art, and evolution, however eclectic, and despite the
> plurality of their sources, coincide for the most part with those of
> Haeckel and are more than occasionally expressed in very much the same
> language".
> Don
>
> Bill Hamilton wrote:
>
>>George wrote
>>
>>Someday I may actually read all of _Mein Kampf_ rather than just snippets,
>>though at 688 pages in the English translation I can probably find better
>>uses for my time. But FWIW, in the index of of Ralph Manheim's translation
>>(Houghton Miflin, 1962) the # of entries for Darwin is 0. Same for
>>evolution, natural selection, Origin of Species, survival of the fittest,
>>Wallace, or anything else connected distinctively with Darwinian
>>evolution.
>>----------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>Of course not everything Hitler ever taught was recorded in Mein Kampf.
>>For
>>example, his statement that if you tell a lie frequently enough people
>>will
>>believe it was probably not in Mein Kampf. I'm not arguing that Hitler
>>_did_
>>say/teach things about evolution -- just that searching Mein Kampf only
>>gives a
>>partial answer.
>>
>>Bill Hamilton
>>William E. Hamilton, Jr., Ph.D.
>>248.652.4148 (home) 248.821.8156 (mobile)
>>"...If God is for us, who is against us?" Rom 8:31
>>
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>
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