As late as the 1990s, some creationist Christians were still preaching that blacks were inferior intellectually and spiritually to white people, used faith arguments to support the denial of equal rights to blacks.
Henry Morris. John Tinkel. Two of the men who proslytized YE creationism from the Seventh-day Adventists to Christian evangelicals. Louis Agassiz, the last world-class biologist to disagree with Darwin. He thought black weren't even descended from Adam and Eve. And he thought they were innately inferior, unlike Darwin, who argued that if primitive people were brought to England, they'd be just like Englishmen in a few generations.
Louis Agassiz - Activities in the United States
Yet the prophecy again has its obverse side. Somehow they have only gone so far and no farther. The Japhethites and Semites have, sooner or later, taken over their territories, and their inventions, and then developed them and utilized them for their own enlargement. Often the Hamites, especially the Negroes, have become actual personal servants or even slaves to the others. Possessed of a genetic character concerned mainly with mundane matters, they have eventually been displaced by the intellectual and philosophical acumen of the Japhethites and the religious zeal of the Semites.
YE Creationist Henry Morris, The Beginning of the World, 1992
It's much more effective to torpedo that fallacy with some facts.
First off, Darwin, in The Descent of Man, declared eugenic ideas to be "an overwhelming evil" and deplored what he expected to be the extinction of many non-European peoples by the aggression of European countries.
Second, Darwinists, like Punnett (remember Punnet Squares?) showed that not only were Nazi racial theories evil, they were scientifically unsupportable. It just wouldn't be possible to do what the Nazis proposed to do. However, the Nazis cited a different inspiration. They revered Martin Luther, whose article, The Jews and Their Lies contains about 90 percent of Hitler's final solution. This was even offered up as a defense by some Nazis at the Nuremberg trials.
By the time Morris was penning his racial slander, evolutionary theory had made it clear that there are no biological human races. And the Human Genome Project (headed by evangelical Christian and evolutionist Francis Collins) showed that there is more genetic diversity within any "race" you might define, than there is between "races."
This is not to say that Berlinski is a racist. It doesn't mean that all creationists are racists. Indeed, a creationist like Samuel Wiberforce could be as determined a foe of slavery as Darwin was. But racism lives on among many creationists, when racism is hard to find among biologist for the reasons I mentioned.
I haven't read all of Mein Kampf. But I've read Descent of Man, and you clearly have not, or you'd have known about Darwin's rejection of eugenic ideas.
This doesn't mean that creationism is wholly to blame for Hitler and his daffy racial ideas. But it must accept some blame because of racial and eugenic theories of some of its leaders.
Henry Morris. John Tinkel. Two of the men who proslytized YE creationism from the Seventh-day Adventists to Christian evangelicals. Louis Agassiz, the last world-class biologist to disagree with Darwin. He thought black weren't even descended from Adam and Eve. And he thought they were innately inferior, unlike Darwin, who argued that if primitive people were brought to England, they'd be just like Englishmen in a few generations.
Louis Agassiz - Activities in the United States
Yet the prophecy again has its obverse side. Somehow they have only gone so far and no farther. The Japhethites and Semites have, sooner or later, taken over their territories, and their inventions, and then developed them and utilized them for their own enlargement. Often the Hamites, especially the Negroes, have become actual personal servants or even slaves to the others. Possessed of a genetic character concerned mainly with mundane matters, they have eventually been displaced by the intellectual and philosophical acumen of the Japhethites and the religious zeal of the Semites.
YE Creationist Henry Morris, The Beginning of the World, 1992
It's much more effective to torpedo that fallacy with some facts.
First off, Darwin, in The Descent of Man, declared eugenic ideas to be "an overwhelming evil" and deplored what he expected to be the extinction of many non-European peoples by the aggression of European countries.
Second, Darwinists, like Punnett (remember Punnet Squares?) showed that not only were Nazi racial theories evil, they were scientifically unsupportable. It just wouldn't be possible to do what the Nazis proposed to do. However, the Nazis cited a different inspiration. They revered Martin Luther, whose article, The Jews and Their Lies contains about 90 percent of Hitler's final solution. This was even offered up as a defense by some Nazis at the Nuremberg trials.
By the time Morris was penning his racial slander, evolutionary theory had made it clear that there are no biological human races. And the Human Genome Project (headed by evangelical Christian and evolutionist Francis Collins) showed that there is more genetic diversity within any "race" you might define, than there is between "races."
This is not to say that Berlinski is a racist. It doesn't mean that all creationists are racists. Indeed, a creationist like Samuel Wiberforce could be as determined a foe of slavery as Darwin was. But racism lives on among many creationists, when racism is hard to find among biologist for the reasons I mentioned.
I haven't read all of Mein Kampf. But I've read Descent of Man, and you clearly have not, or you'd have known about Darwin's rejection of eugenic ideas.
This doesn't mean that creationism is wholly to blame for Hitler and his daffy racial ideas. But it must accept some blame because of racial and eugenic theories of some of its leaders.
