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Was Hitler really an Intelligent Design proponent?
I just got finished watching Ben Stein's Expelled, which is about how the scientific community is trying to quiet anyone who is a proponent of Intelligent Design as a valid scientific theory worthy of research. And in this film, Stein goes to Germany to see places where the Nazis systematically put to death people who were insane or crippled because they were "drains on resources" in essence, and that he got this idea from Darwinism. But wasn't he really acting as an intelligent designer, remaking the human race to his own standards? After all, he thought of a "perfect race" of people, the end result of natural evolution, and he simply thought he was helping the process along. So he was, essentially, acting as an Intelligent Designer. So do the proponents of ID now have to ask themselves if they should hold up Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party as one of the first real forces for Intelligent Design theory?
Ah but Albert, "survival of the fittest" was misinterpreted to mean survival of the best or most physically superior, not as Darwin intended it as those best at adapting to their current situation. So it does not really count, just as you can't blame Darwin for the bastadization of evolution that is Social Darwinism.
And believe me, I know Expelled was a work of purest propaganda, which left out all the historical examples of religion condemning scientific findings for thousands of years. I sincerely hope none of it was true, because even if ID is a farce, you shouldn't lose your job because of believing it.
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- Pirate AM™Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
Not really. Hitler made the mistake that many make about evolution, i.e. he assumed that it had a purpose or goal of making a "perfect species" and that humans were on the "top of the evolutionary ladder". Neither of these are true or even remotely implied by evolution.
Expelled, on a factual scale, ranks as extremely poor and should be treated as fiction or deluded ramblings. You can check out expelledexposed.com or Scientific American's pages for overviews of the numerous falsehoods that Expelled espouses as true.
- skeptikLv 71 decade ago
"Racial Purity" is a concept that is completely alien to evolution. Hitler may not have been precisely an ID'er (the concept didn't really exist yet). But he certainly had nothing to do with actual evolution.
Your other suspicion about the movie is correct as well. Not one of the individuals portrayed as having lost their jobs for supporting ID or criticizing evolution actually did. Some never had actual jobs to begin with, and others kept theirs long after the supposed incidents. One had already announced his retirement from his position before committing the act that supposedly got him fired.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Anyone who admired Hitler in the past is dead.
He hated Jews, and he himself was an ethnic Jew, as one of his grandmothers had a child by her Jewish employer. I think it was his grandmother and father. His father beat Hitler, and Adolph, like many ex-convicts, was a victim of child abuse. He was violently abused, for sure, and the rest, sexual assault, is difficult to substantiate.
He dreamed of a pure, blond, blue eyed German master race. Hitler was none of these things himself. He was Austrian, he had dark hair.
He was rumored to have had one testicle that was either caused by injury or a physical deformity. His association with Eva Braun was little more than a political prop. The physical deformities of his male reproductive system, and his drug abuse, had rendered Hitler asexual. Despite the German propaganda that Hitler had affairs with numerous women, Hitler failed to father a single child. He called himself a wolf, but he was nothing more that a bastard mongrel with no breeding, little intellect, a shameful and disgraced family history, and a very large chip on his shoulder.
The fact that people still keep his memory alive with any sort of admiration, whether it is the Neo-Nazis, or any other fascists is disturbing.
Hitler is not a man to be admired or praised for anything. Doing so only causes me to think about what are the true intentions of the admirer.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
He was doing the same type of breeding as they do on farms. The fact that it was an evil thing to do, or that it was an evil regime really doesn't change the truth of any of it.
The Nazis used gravity to make bombs fall on London. Gravity is still real.
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- Weise EnteLv 71 decade ago
Considering the Nazis banned and burned Darwin's works, he wasn't a "Darwinist."
- ?Lv 45 years ago
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- 1 decade ago
well be believed in a "supreme race", which doesnt even make sense as there is no "race" in the human species.
I guess you could say he was in favor of artificle selection, but that movie is just propaganda, I am pretty sure they got sued for using material they were not allowed to use
- Anonymous1 decade ago
He was no evolutionist. He was nuts.
Creationism is a piping hot heap of bullshait. Just FI, not a single creationist theory has ever been published in a scientific peer reviewed journal.
Not a single one.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Hitler was an agnostic evolutionist. He also favored the use of eugenics.
Source(s): Hitler's Table Talks