{"id":41120,"date":"2023-02-24T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/?p=41120"},"modified":"2024-10-15T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T21:00:29","slug":"1715","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/1715\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridge UP Book Airbrushes Darwin\u2019s Contribution to Scientific Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On today\u2019s\u00a0ID the Future<\/strong>\u00a0historian Richard Weikart (Cal State Stanislaus) dissects a recent Cambridge University Press\u00a0book on social Darwinism<\/a>\u00a0by Jeffrey O\u2019Connell and Michael Ruse. Weikart, author of\u00a0Hitler\u2019s Ethic<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0From Darwin to Hitler<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0Hitler\u2019s Religion<\/a><\/em>, and\u00a0The Death of Humanity<\/a><\/em>, says a major shortcoming of the Cambridge UP book is the authors\u2019 attempt to put as much distance as possible between Darwin and eugenics thinking, and between Darwin and Hitler. The new book paints Darwin follower Herbert Spencer as the eugenics-championing bad guy and contends that Darwin and Darwinism had little or no influence on Hitler\u2019s warped master-race ethic. Weikart patiently highlights some key evidence to the contrary, including statements front and center in Hitler\u2019s writing. Did Darwin cause Hitler? No. Would Darwin have approved of Hitler? Almost certainly not. But according to Weikart, Darwin\u2019s own racist and pro-eugenics thinking, combined with some implications of his theory that he himself explicitly surfaced, manifestly did lay the groundwork for Hitler\u2019s diabolical outlook on war, \u201cthe master race,\u201d \u201cthe struggle for life,\u201d and eugenics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On today\u2019s\u00a0ID the Future\u00a0historian Richard Weikart (Cal State Stanislaus) dissects a recent Cambridge University Press\u00a0book on social Darwinism\u00a0by Jeffrey O\u2019Connell and Michael Ruse. Weikart, author of\u00a0Hitler\u2019s Ethic,\u00a0From Darwin to Hitler,\u00a0Hitler\u2019s Religion, and\u00a0The Death of Humanity, says a major shortcoming of the Cambridge UP book is the authors\u2019 attempt to put as much distance as possible between Darwin and eugenics thinking, and between Darwin and Hitler. The new book paints Darwin follower Herbert Spencer as the eugenics-championing bad guy and contends that Darwin and Darwinism had little or no influence on Hitler\u2019s warped master-race ethic. Weikart patiently highlights some key evidence to the contrary, including statements front and center in Hitler\u2019s writing. Did Darwin cause Hitler? No. Would Darwin have approved Read More ›<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":39588,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":1,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","sync_status":"synced","episode_type":"audio","audio_file":"https:\/\/episodes.castos.com\/id\/f02e54bc-f905-43e7-933f-654e785a3269-IDTF-1715-RichardWeikart-Social-Darwinism-Review.mp3","podmotor_file_id":"1237876","podmotor_episode_id":"1422014","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"00:17:03","filesize":"10.1 mb","filesize_raw":"10569723","date_recorded":"2023-02-24 13:08:00","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"1715","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"full","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2368,55,3980,269,4192,4200,545,550,662,1951,4198,743,4199,1006,1151,3861,4195,1335,1389,4197,4196,1446,1491,4193,4194],"series":[7227],"speaker":[],"class_list":["post-41120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-__repeat","tag-adolf-hitler","tag-cambridge-university-press","tag-charles-darwin","tag-colonialism","tag-e-o-wilson","tag-ernst-haeckel","tag-eugenics","tag-from-darwin-to-hitler","tag-herbert-spencer","tag-hitlers-ethic-2","tag-hitlers-religion","tag-jeffrey-oconnell","tag-michael-ruse","tag-pantheism","tag-racism","tag-richard-weikart","tag-scientific-racism","tag-social-darwinism","tag-struggle-for-life","tag-struggle-for-survival","tag-survival-of-the-fittest","tag-the-death-of-humanity","tag-world-war-i","tag-world-war-ii","series-intelligent-design-the-future"],"acf":[],"author_names":["Richard Weikart"],"episode_featured_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/04\/skulls-scaled.jpg","episode_player_image":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2021\/08\/idthefuture-cover.jpg","download_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-download\/41120\/1715.mp3","player_link":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/41120\/1715.mp3","audio_player":"https:\/\/op3.dev\/e\/idthefuture.com\/podcast-player\/41120\/1715.mp3<\/a><\/audio>","episode_data":{"playerMode":"dark","subscribeUrls":[],"rssFeedUrl":"https:\/\/idthefuture.com\/feed\/podcast\/intelligent-design-the-future","embedCode":"

Cambridge UP Book Airbrushes Darwin\u2019s Contribution to Scientific Racism<\/a><\/blockquote>