Ebony and Ivory

WHAT ARE THE SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF EVOLUTION?

Racism: If humans evolved from some apelike creature, then some people must have advanced higher on the evolutionary ladder than others. Some classes of people should be inherently superior to others.

Response: But that’s racism. That’s the twisted logic Hitler used to try to establish his super, Aryan race and to justify exterminating six milion Jews in the Holocaust. This does not mean evolutionists are racists, although Charles Darwin and many of his followers of a century ago were extreme racists. However, evolution has provided the main rationale for racism. Stephen Jay Gould has written that “Biological arguments for racism...increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory.” People with darker skin have suffered greatly from evolutionary racism. Evolution has also caused others to suffer even more. They are victims of a greater holocaust going on all around us--abortion.

Dr. Walt Brown, In The Beginning, 2001 pp 289-90