It's in his book. No point in denial.
Doesn't matter. I cited the book; if someone doubts it, they can go and see. It's not great literature, but the statement is therein.
He later tried to nuance it, but of course it's in a published book, so there's no way to deny it.
You'd think so, wouldn't you? And yet, as you see above, they doctored one of Darwin's statements to make it appear he meant the opposite of what he actually said. Would you like me to show you some more?
They removed the part that showed he considered eugenics evil. On the other hand, Dr. Tinkel, one of the founders of the ICR, was an enthusiastic eugenicist:
Even more problematic for the claim that “Darwinism” was critical and instrumental in the development of eugenics is the uncomfortable fact that eugenics was also openly embraced by opponents of evolution (the first eugenics sterilization laws in the world were passed in 1907 Indiana, hardly a hotbed of “Darwinists”). The most notable of these anti-evolution eugenics supporters was probably William J. Tinkle, geneticist and prominent Creationist. Tinkle taught at religious LaVerne College and Taylor University, and participated in the activities of the Deluge Society, the first “Creation Science” organization. He then joined forces with the “young lions” of Creationism, Henry Morris, Duane Gish and Walter Lammerts, and with them he was one of the 10 Founding Fathers of the Creation Research Society, which later became the Institute for Creation Research.
Tinkle opposed evolution and Darwinian theory, but was an enthusiastic proponent of eugenics, and published several articles on the subject. In his 1939 textbook “Fundamentals of Zoology” he devotes a section to “The Need of Human Betterment”, where he laments the existence of “defective families” who “give birth to offspring like themselves”, producing “persons of low mentality, paupers and criminals in much greater ratio than the general population”[8, p. 130]. Negative eugenics via institutionalization seems to have been his preferred eugenic solution.
https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2007/05/dr-west-meet-dr.html
If I showed you two pages around Morris's statement, would that be enough? As you see, your source edited Darwin's statement to remove his objection to eugenics. Do you think if I gave you even more around Morris's statement, that it would somehow erase his argument that blacks are genetically inferior in intellectual and spiritual qualities?
Shall I show you?
Doesn't matter. I cited the book; if someone doubts it, they can go and see. It's not great literature, but the statement is therein.
He later tried to nuance it, but of course it's in a published book, so there's no way to deny it.
You'd think so, wouldn't you? And yet, as you see above, they doctored one of Darwin's statements to make it appear he meant the opposite of what he actually said. Would you like me to show you some more?
They removed the part that showed he considered eugenics evil. On the other hand, Dr. Tinkel, one of the founders of the ICR, was an enthusiastic eugenicist:
Even more problematic for the claim that “Darwinism” was critical and instrumental in the development of eugenics is the uncomfortable fact that eugenics was also openly embraced by opponents of evolution (the first eugenics sterilization laws in the world were passed in 1907 Indiana, hardly a hotbed of “Darwinists”). The most notable of these anti-evolution eugenics supporters was probably William J. Tinkle, geneticist and prominent Creationist. Tinkle taught at religious LaVerne College and Taylor University, and participated in the activities of the Deluge Society, the first “Creation Science” organization. He then joined forces with the “young lions” of Creationism, Henry Morris, Duane Gish and Walter Lammerts, and with them he was one of the 10 Founding Fathers of the Creation Research Society, which later became the Institute for Creation Research.
Tinkle opposed evolution and Darwinian theory, but was an enthusiastic proponent of eugenics, and published several articles on the subject. In his 1939 textbook “Fundamentals of Zoology” he devotes a section to “The Need of Human Betterment”, where he laments the existence of “defective families” who “give birth to offspring like themselves”, producing “persons of low mentality, paupers and criminals in much greater ratio than the general population”[8, p. 130]. Negative eugenics via institutionalization seems to have been his preferred eugenic solution.
https://pandasthumb.org/archives/2007/05/dr-west-meet-dr.html
If I showed you two pages around Morris's statement, would that be enough? As you see, your source edited Darwin's statement to remove his objection to eugenics. Do you think if I gave you even more around Morris's statement, that it would somehow erase his argument that blacks are genetically inferior in intellectual and spiritual qualities?
Shall I show you?
