Oh... So this famous evolutionist concluded Hitler was an evolutionist, and that those evolutionary beliefs factored in the holocaust.
While Hitler may have believed in evolution and that that belief might have been a contributing factor, which you cannot establish beyond assertion and an extremely loose intrepretation of one anthropologist's opinion, it is an irrefutable fact that Hitler was a racist and hated the Jews and that that hatred was the overwhelming reason for the Holocaust.
Part of what he
concluded was "The German Führer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consciously sought to make the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Keith
Hitler was without question a racist and that society allows, even encourages, the survival of those most detrimental to the gene pool.
The Nazi justification of genocide had nothing to do with evolution in principle. The survival of the fittest, a core aspect of evolution was, and still is, being artificially violated. Should the "less fit" be allowed to survive and propagate? The point of the video you linked was to demonstrate why not.
Hitler was concerned with the "racial purity" of the German people. Eliminating "undesirable" traits from the gene pool is core to that sort of "selective breeding" initiative", which stands unrefuted.
Sir Arthur Keith so strongly wanted evolution to be true that many believe he was responsible for the Piltdown hoax.
You have the most peculiar logic.
It simply does not follow that because Sir Keith believed in evolution, therefore, he was responsible for the Piltdown hoax.
Yet... he concluded that evolutionism was a major contributing factor to the holocaust.
The ONLY thing Sir Keith "concluded" was that Hitler believed in evolution, the rest is your addition.
Yes.....Hitler and the Nazi's rejected God's Word about caring for the weak and downtrodden. Hitler rejected God's Word telling us we are all "one blood" and descendants of Adam and Eve.
Poison the well much? Wouldn't this sort of argument be more effective if directed toward a christian?
The Nazi's claimed that caring for the disabled was a violation of natural laws / natural selection.
Nope. "The "euthanasia" program was Nazi Germany's first program of mass murder. It predated the genocide of European Jewry (the*Holocaust) by approximately two years. The program was one of many radical eugenic measures which aimed to restore the racial "integrity" of the German nation. It endeavored to eliminate what eugenicists and their supporters considered "life unworthy of life": those individuals who, they believed, because of severe psychiatric, neurological, or physical disabilities represented both a genetic and a financial burden on German society and the state."
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/mobile/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005200
They used evolutionary beliefs to justify eliminating millions of people they deemed as unfit.
Hitler was a racist and hated the Jews and that that hatred was the overwhelming reason for the Holocaust.
https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/mobile/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007858
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