02-27-2018, 02:02 PM
Darwinism, of course, refers to Charles Darwin, the man most effective in achieving a widespread belief in one-life-and-that’s-it.
He suggested in the mid-1800s that the potential of the mind is developed by genetic inheritance. This is patent nonsense, but it did provide the justification for the eugenics (racial purity) movement that would follow and lead both to Adolf Hitler and the population control policies of today.
His work, Origin Of Species, to give it a shortened title, was to become the basis for ‘scientific’ thinking and its mindset dominates what we bravely call science to this day. His most famous theory, that of the survival of the fittest, didn’t even appear in the first four editions. He lifted it from the writings of a contemporary, Herbert Spencer, who had lifted it from someone else.
The word ‘evolution’ did not appear until the sixth edition, in 1872. Even Darwin didn’t believe his theory by the end of his life, and he thought God created human beings. But his Origin Of Species went on to take over ‘scientific’ thought anyway.
He suggested in the mid-1800s that the potential of the mind is developed by genetic inheritance. This is patent nonsense, but it did provide the justification for the eugenics (racial purity) movement that would follow and lead both to Adolf Hitler and the population control policies of today.
His work, Origin Of Species, to give it a shortened title, was to become the basis for ‘scientific’ thinking and its mindset dominates what we bravely call science to this day. His most famous theory, that of the survival of the fittest, didn’t even appear in the first four editions. He lifted it from the writings of a contemporary, Herbert Spencer, who had lifted it from someone else.
The word ‘evolution’ did not appear until the sixth edition, in 1872. Even Darwin didn’t believe his theory by the end of his life, and he thought God created human beings. But his Origin Of Species went on to take over ‘scientific’ thought anyway.