[__ Science __ ] Louis Agassiz and Alexander Winchell: Two Case Histories of Creationists Who Illustrate That Rejecting Genesis Influences the Acceptance of Racism

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Theories that attempted to harmonize evolution and the Scriptures gave birth to, and perpetuated, a form of scientific racism based on Darwinism.

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[Barbarian]

Actually, Agassiz was firmly anti-Darwinian. It was his opposition to Darwinian evolution that led him to believe that black people were not descendants of Adam and Eve.

Darwin scandalized racists and creationists of his time, by declaring that if "primitive people" were brought to England, after a few generations they'd be just like Englishmen.

Modern evolutionary theory refutes creationism by showing that there are no biological human races.

 

[Truthfrees]

Theories that attempted to harmonize evolution and the Scriptures gave birth to, and perpetuated, a form of scientific racism based on Darwinism.

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great info - thanks

 

[Barbarian]

Henry Morris, founder of the Institute for Creation Research, in the early 1990s, wrote about the supposed intellectual and spiritual inferiority of black people.

Many, probably a majority, of creationists do not accept the fundamental racist assumptions of creationist doctrine. But it remains a force in creationism.