Tag: Nazism

interior view of the Cistercian church at Salem Palace in southern Germany

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Author
Stephen C. Meyer

Date
February 6, 2023

Categorized
Faith and Science

Tagged
Adolf Hitler, Atheism, Bible, Big Bang, Biological Information, British Judaism, Christendom, Christian faith, civic value, fine tuning, Friedrich Nietzsche, George Washington, Holocaust, Judaism, Judeo-Christian morality, King Charles, Miracles, multiverse hypothesis, national morality, Naturalism, Nazis, Nazism, panspermia, philosophical materialism, religious wars, scientific atheism, the Fall, Third Reich, Thomas Jefferson, virtue, what would Jesus do, World War I}

Tom Holland, Stephen Meyer, Douglas Murray: God and the West

_{Stephen C. Meyer

February 6, 2023

Faith and Science}

On today’s ID the Future, Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson talks with historian Tom Holland, journalist Douglas Murray, and philosopher of science Stephen Meyer about the decline of theistic faith in the West. Here in Part I of the conversation, the men consider possible causes for the decline of theistic faith. According to Meyer the decline has occurred in the face of increasing scientific evidence for the existence of God. So what gives? Tune in to hear their stimulating exploration of the question, and what each sees as the appropriate response. This material is used by permission of Peter Robinson and the Uncommon Knowledge podcast.

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
March 30, 2022

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
agnosticism, Atheism, Darwinism, David Berlinski, emotivism, Evolution, God, human exceptionalism, human rights, Humanize podcast, Intelligent Design, irreducible complexity, Jewish Holocaust, Marcel Schützenberger, Materialism, metaphysics, methodological materialism, Michael Behe, Natural Selection, nature rights movement, Nazis, Nazism, nihilism, Notre Dame, Peter Abelard, philosophy of science, random mutations, self-referential fallacies, The SS State, Theism, Wesley J. Smith}

David Berlinski on Nazism, Darwinism, Emotivism, and Nature Rights

_{David Berlinski

March 30, 2022

Ethics}

On today’s ID the Future, Human Nature author David Berlinski continues his conversation with host Wesley J. Smith. Here Berlinski reflects on the Jewish Holocaust, the destructive nihilism of the Nazis and the SS, and the shortcomings of Neo-Darwinism as an explanation for the diversity of life. Berlinski and Smith also discuss the increasingly widespread attacks on human exceptionalism, the growth of emotivism and why it’s a problem, and the bizarre nature rights movement. This is the second and concluding part of a conversation borrowed, with permission, from Wesley J. Smith’s Humanize podcast.

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 16, 2022

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
Adolf Hitler, Alt Right, biological evolution, Bronx Zoo, Charles Darwin, Darwinian biologists, Darwinism, David Livingstone, E.O. Wilson, Ernst Haeckel, Eugenics, Euthanasia, Evolution, evolutionary psychology, genocide, Herbert Spencer, human zoos, immigration policy, John G. West, living space, Natural Selection, Nazi Germany, Nazi physicians, Nazis, Nazism, Ota Benga, racial struggle, racism, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, Scopes Trial, Social Darwinism, Stephen Pinker, sterilization, struggle for existence, survival of the fittest, The Descent of Man, The Origin of Species, transhumanism, white nationalism, white nationalists, Whoopi Goldberg}

Darwinian Racism Webinar, Pt. 2

_{Richard Weikart

February 16, 2022

Ethics}

Today’s ID the Future features the second half of a recent webinar spotlighting historian Richard Weikart and his new book, Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism. Here Weikart fields questions from the webinar audience. Along the way Weikart touches on the connection between Darwinism and scientific racism, the objection that Darwinism, properly understood, doesn’t support scientific racism (much less Nazi racism), the racism inherent in Darwin’s own writings and those of prominent early Darwinists such as Ernst Haeckel, and more recent manifestations of Darwinian-inspired scientific racism both academic and populist. This and much more is explored in Weikart’s new book, available here. And for scientific reasons to reject Darwinism along with its racists implications, jump over Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 2, 2022

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
Adolf Hitler, Adrian Desmond, Aryan race, Charles Darwin, colonial slavery, Columbine High School, Columbine shooting, compulsory sterilization, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinian Racism, Darwinism, Dylan Klebold, Eric Harris, Ernst Haeckel, Eugenics, Evolution, genocide, human evolution, James F. Moore, Natural Selection, Nazi Ministry of Education, Nazi SS, Nazis, Nazism, neo-Nazis, Nordic race, racial extermination, racism, Richard Weikart, scientific racism, struggle for existence, The Descent of Man, Third Reich, white nationalism}

New Book on How Darwinism Fueled Nazi Racism, White Nationalism

_{Andrew McDiarmid

February 2, 2022

Evolution}

Today’s ID the Future features the newly released Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism by distinguished historian Richard Weikart. Here Andrew McDiarmid reads from the introduction and chapter one. Weikart begins his book by revisiting the harrowing Columbine High School mass shooting and underscoring the curious fact that one of the mass shooters, a white nationalist, claimed inspiration from not just Adolf Hitler but also Charles Darwin. Since Darwin was a peaceable Victorian English gentleman and naturalist, what possible connection could there be between Darwin on the one hand and Hitler and contemporary white nationalism on the other? Weikart shows that the connection is in fact quite clear from the writings of Hitler, Darwin himself, and Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O'Leary

Date
December 1, 2021

Categorized
Evolution

Tagged
Alas for Darwin, altruism, Casey Luskin, Charles Darwin, compassion, Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Daniel Dennett, David Stove, Denyse O’Leary, Eugenics, evolutionary psychology, force sterilization, Hank Campbell, heroism, Jerry Fodor, Michael Egnor, Natural Selection, Nazism, Neanderthal, origin of altruism, origin of the mind, panpsychism, racism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Weikart, selfish genes, Social Darwinism, sociobiology, survival of the fittest, The Descent of Man}

Evolutionary Psychology: Checkered Past, Checkered Present

_{Denyse O'Leary

December 1, 2021

Evolution}

On this ID the Future host Casey Luskin interviews science journalist Denyse O’Leary about her recent essay, “Is Evolutionary Psychology a Legitimate Way to Understand Our Humanity,” which appears in the new Harvest House anthology co-edited by Luskin, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith. O’Leary, a science journalist and co-author of The Spiritual Brain, offers a withering critique of evolutionary psychology and traces its roots, beginning with The Descent of Man (1871), where Charles Darwin attributed various human behaviors to natural and sexual selection. That fed into what became known as social Darwinism, which fell out of favor after World War II thanks to Hitler and the Nazis’ application of social Darwinist ideas to defend Nordic superiority and genocide. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
December 4, 2019

Tagged
__edited, Blueprint, cooperation, Holocaust, Human Nature, Islam, Nazism, Nicholas Christakis, Pope Benedict, Pope Benedict XVI, progress, Regensburg Address, sociobiology, Theology, virtue}

Peter Robinson Interviews David Berlinski, Pt. 2

_{David Berlinski

December 4, 2019}

This episode of ID the Future features the second part of a conversation between Uncommon Knowledge host Peter Robinson and polymath David Berlinski, author of the newly released book Human Nature. In this segment of the interview, Robinson asks Berlinski about a book by Nicholas Christakis, Blueprint, which argues that evolution has endowed us with a genetic makeup that drives human culture toward virtue and progress. Berlinski demurs, pointing to the horrors of the twentieth century and by noting that the virtues Christakis underscores, such as cooperativeness, can also be put to nefarious purposes. The Nazi Party, for instance, “was a marvelous engine of cooperation. All those Nazis cooperated with one another running death camps.” Robinson also asks Berlinski about Read More ›

Rusty german army helmet from second world war.

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
November 8, 2017

Tagged
__edited, anthropology, biology, Charles Darwin, Christianity, Creationism, Darwin, Darwinism, Ethics, Evolution, Hitler, Hitler’s Religion, James Watson, Mein Kampf, Nature, Nazism, Pantheism, Races, scientific racism, secular}

How Darwinian Evolution Informed Hitler’s Ethics

_{Richard Weikart

November 8, 2017}

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.

Hitler with General Guderian and Field Marshal Keitel in Rügenwalde, Germany, 19 March, 1943

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
November 6, 2017

Tagged
__edited, Christianity, Creationism, Darwinism, Evolution, Hitler, Hitler’s Religion, Mein Kampf, Nature, Nazism, Pantheism}

Was Hitler a Creationist? Hitler Historian Says No.

_{Richard Weikart

November 6, 2017}

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. Here Dr. Weikart explores the claim that Hitler was a creationist and shows why it misses the mark.

Adolf Hitler Shakes Hands With Reich President Paul von Hindenburg

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
November 28, 2011

Categorized
Ethics

Tagged
__edited, Darwin to Hitler (book), Darwinian Theory, Hitler's Ethic (book), Mein Kampf, Nazism, response to criticism, scientific racism}

Hitler & Darwin, pt. 1: Richard Weikart Responds to Recent Claims Against his Books

_{Richard Weikart

November 28, 2011

Ethics}

On this episode of ID The Future, the first of two on this topic, Discovery Institute fellow Dr. Richard Weikart discusses his response to critics of his work showing the links between Darwinian theory and Nazism. “It’s clear that he [Hitler] uses Darwinian terminology and concepts quite frequently, not only in Mein Kampf but also in his second book and in many of the speeches…” Tune in to find out what Weikart’s critics are saying and how he refutes their claims. Weikart is the author of two books on the subject: From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany and Hitler’s Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress. ALSO: Read Weikart’s detailed response on Evolution News & Read More ›