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Attempts to apply Darwinian eugenics were part of the Nazi effort to produce a superior race in Germany.
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[__ Science __ ] Gypsies Massacred as Part of the Darwinian Eugenic Holocaust
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Actually, Hitler's eugenic ideas were debunked by Darwinian biologists like Punnett and Morgan, who showed that they were not only evil, they were scientifically incorrect.
However, prominent creationists, like ICR founder Dr. William J. Tinkel were on board with the idea:
The most notable of these anti-evolution eugenics supporters was probably William J. Tinkle, geneticist and prominent Creationist. Tinkle taught at religious LaVerne College and Taylor University, and participated in the activities of the Deluge Society, the first “Creation Science” organization. He then joined forces with the “young lions” of Creationism, Henry Morris, Duane Gish and Walter Lammerts, and with them he was one of the 10 Founding Fathers of the Creation Research Society, which later became the Institute for Creation Research.
"It is an excellent plan to keep defective people in institutions for here they are not permitted to marry and bear children."
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Scientists who are working at the task of improving the human race] would like to increase the birth rate of families having good heredity, while those people having poor heredity should not marry at all.
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This is not to say that all creationists are eugenicists; most are not, and even in the 1930s, there were likely many who objected to the ICR position.
Even Darwin, although he thought eugenics might work, dismissed it as an "overwhelming evil."
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
Darwin scandalized proper English folk by arguing that if you brought primitive people to England, in a few generations, they'd be just like Englishmen.
By Punnett's time, the idea of eugenics was a joke as far as biologists were concerned, and few biologists are racists because evolutionary theory shows that there are no biological human races. Eventually, most creationists gave up the idea, but as late as the 1990s, an ICR director was writing about the supposed intellectual and spiritual inferiority of black people. Today, it's no longer a problem for creationism generally, and if there are still eugenicists among them, they keep a low profile.
However, prominent creationists, like ICR founder Dr. William J. Tinkel were on board with the idea:
The most notable of these anti-evolution eugenics supporters was probably William J. Tinkle, geneticist and prominent Creationist. Tinkle taught at religious LaVerne College and Taylor University, and participated in the activities of the Deluge Society, the first “Creation Science” organization. He then joined forces with the “young lions” of Creationism, Henry Morris, Duane Gish and Walter Lammerts, and with them he was one of the 10 Founding Fathers of the Creation Research Society, which later became the Institute for Creation Research.
"It is an excellent plan to keep defective people in institutions for here they are not permitted to marry and bear children."
...
Scientists who are working at the task of improving the human race] would like to increase the birth rate of families having good heredity, while those people having poor heredity should not marry at all.
Dr. West, meet Dr. Tinkle, Creationist eugenicist
This is not to say that all creationists are eugenicists; most are not, and even in the 1930s, there were likely many who objected to the ICR position.
Even Darwin, although he thought eugenics might work, dismissed it as an "overwhelming evil."
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
Darwin scandalized proper English folk by arguing that if you brought primitive people to England, in a few generations, they'd be just like Englishmen.
By Punnett's time, the idea of eugenics was a joke as far as biologists were concerned, and few biologists are racists because evolutionary theory shows that there are no biological human races. Eventually, most creationists gave up the idea, but as late as the 1990s, an ICR director was writing about the supposed intellectual and spiritual inferiority of black people. Today, it's no longer a problem for creationism generally, and if there are still eugenicists among them, they keep a low profile.