JOURNAL ARTICLE

Darwin's Central Role in Birthing Racism and Nazism: Another Reason Why God Did Not Use Evolution to Create Life.

  • Published In: Creation Research Society Quarterly, 2025, v. 62, n. 2. P. 163 1 of 3

  • Database: Academic Search Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Bergman, Jerry 3 of 3

Abstract

The article focuses on the claim that Darwinian evolutionary theory played a central role in the development of modern racism and Nazism. It argues that Darwinism influenced racist ideologies, including those of Arthur de Gobineau, who promoted Aryan racial superiority, and that these ideas were adopted and expanded by the Nazis to justify genocide and eugenics. The article cites historian Yuval Noah Harari's analysis that Nazi ideology was deeply shaped by evolutionary concepts of racial hierarchy and natural selection, which were also widely accepted among Western elites at the time. It concludes that the Nazi regime's atrocities were an extreme application of mainstream evolutionary thought, contrasting this with the biblical view of a single human race descended from Adam and Eve.

Additional Information

  • Source:Creation Research Society Quarterly. 2025/10, Vol. 62, Issue 2, p163
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Religion and Philosophy
  • Publication Date:2025
  • ISSN:0092-9166
  • Accession Number:188831818

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