Is there a term for somebody who takes evolution too far? (see example)?

Well ... first the extremism you're talking about is not taking evolution too far, but taking Darwinism too far. (I.e. misinterpreting Darwinism as just "survival of the fittest" and that this therefore justified culling of the "weak" which is a grotesque misunderstanding of what Darwinism says.) But no, I have never heard a specific name for such a thing.

I'm pretty sure this has been used commonly in novels and screenplays (e.g. I think this was a subtext in the movie 'se7en', but I may be wrong). I think I've seen more than one Law and Order or CSI episode in which the killer (when finally confessing to the crime) talks about killing the "weak" ... and I'm sure you can see it in the notes left by serial killers like Son of Sam etc. or in the rants of Charles Manson (who still signs his letters to this day with a swastika).

But I would caution against drawing too much of an association between these people, or with the Nazis and people like Hitler, with evolution or Darwinism.

For example, Ben Stein makes this association a centerpiece of his movie 'Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed' ... and a lot of Creationists try to do the same. But if you actually examine the works of Hitler you will find *FAR* more mentions of Christ, Christianity, and doing 'God's work' than you will mentions of evolution or Darwinism. In other words, *ALL* ideas, no matter how good, can be perverted and twisted by madmen!

So it takes a certain kind of extremism to take the extremism of madmen seriously as a real consequence of those ideas. That is why I agree with emucompboy that Ben Stein is such an extremist.

> Is there a term for somebody who takes evolution too far?

Ben Stein

> has such a system of belief been used in any other books, movies, tv, etc. that you know of?

Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

is your novel "the diary of anne frank" by any chance?

yeah the holocaust was a pretty good example of that

however eugenics isn't strictly related to evolution, even if a given individual believes that all people/s where created by god, that the basis "races" never change, and are extremely anti-evolution, they could still be doing this

the crusades and the inquisition for example, were religiously headed genocides