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Date November 8, 2017
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How Darwinian Evolution Informed Hitler’s Ethics
Richard Weikart
November 8, 2017
Episode 1066 With Tod Butterfield
Guest Richard Weikart
Duration 00:12:24 Download Audio File (11.4 mb)
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On this episode of ID The Future , Tod Butterfield talks with historian Dr. Richard Weikart about his new book Hitler’s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs that Drove the Third Reich . In this episode, Dr. Weikart explains how Darwinian evolution informed Hitler’s ethics.
Photo by Nathan Jacobson, © Discovery Insitute (CC BY-SA 4.0) Senior Fellow , Center for Science and CultureRichard Weikart is Emeritus Professor of History, California State University, Stanislaus, and author of seven books, including From Darwin to Hitler , Hitler’s Ethic , The Death of Humanity , and Hitler’s Religion . His most recent book is Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism (2022). His PhD dissertation, Socialist Darwinism , earned the biennial prize of the Forum for History of Human Sciences as best dissertation in that field. He has lectured at many universities and other venues in the US and Europe. He also has been interviewed on dozens of radio shows, podcasts, and TV, and appeared in seven documentaries, including Expelled . Some of his lectures and interviews are available on YouTube.
