Ken Ham, the Aussie creationist that brought Kentucky the Creation Museum, has published a new book of lies that says the theory of evolution fuels racism and genocide.
Ham and his co-author-in-crime Charles Ware, president of Crossroads Bible College in Indianapolis, have written Darwin’s Plantation: Evolution’s Racist Roots, arguing that the theory inspired the Nazi belief in racial superiority and the despotism of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
“What Darwinian evolution did I would say is provide what people thought was a scientific justification for separation of races,” Ham said in an interview with the Associated Press.
Uhh, wrong … what weed are these guys smoking?
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species says nothing about the superiority of one human race over another. Social scientists and politicians warped Darwin’s idea of “survival of the fittest” to justify their abuse of power, but to blame Darwin for the Holocaust and Stalin’s purges is just a lie, plain and simple.
Rather than deal with evolution in an intelligent manner, Ham and Ware are throwing stones at biology’s underlying theory in an attempt to discredit it. Their hidden agenda is to associate evolution with racism so much that clueless school boards (like the one in South Carolina) will try to pull the teaching of evolution from science classes.
Charles McKinney, a South Carolina board of ed member, in fact used the same arguments that Ham and Ware recycle in their book during deliberations about the science curriculum in South Carolina. If evolution teaches that racism is OK, and we don’t want to teach racism in school, then evolution must be banned.
Gods, how can people be so stupid?
Anyone with even a passing acquaintance with evolution would know that there is nothing in biology texts or Darwin’s book that suggests anything about one race (a discredited term nowadays anyway) being superior to another. Evolution focuses on different organisms competing for available resources. The better suited organisms survive, or they evolve to survive.
For Ham and Ware to be correct, there would have had to have been no slavery, no despotism, and no genocide prior to Origin‘s publication in 1859. Nothing could be further from the truth. You could easily argue that religion fostered slavery, despotism and genocide, and have more evidence in your favor. The Crusades, anyone?
Readers of Ham and Ware, though, don’t know any better and will soak up every falsehood that these panderers of ignorance dish out. Dumber and dumberer …
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