The Theory of Evolution is Racism

I Affirm: Evolutionary Theory is Racism. Those who subscribe to evolutions conclusions must accept they are a racist. Definitions Racism: The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. http://education.yahoo.com... http://dictionary.reference.com... Evolutionary Theory: evolution;theory of evolution; macroevolution; Change in the genetic composition of a population during successive generations, as a result of natural selection acting on the genetic variation among individuals, and resulting in the development of new species. Contention 1 The Logical conclusion of Evolutionary Theory equates to Racism. Natural Selection allows the most evolved or "favoured" race to succeed in the natural environment. Logically speaking some species and sub-species (race) are actively evolving and competing with one another. Some animals are superior to other animals. Logically everyone must accept that some animals are superior to other animals in a given environment. Further you must accept that some animals with in a species are superior to others with in the species. This contention doesn't intend to place importance on which race is superior just that the logical conclusion of Evolutionary Theory suggest one sub-species (race) can be superior to another in a given environment. You must accept this as FACT if you subscribe to Evolutionary Theory because it is a foundation and necessary requirement for evolution to occur. http://en.wikipedia.org... Contention 2 Spokesmen and adamant supporters of Evolutionary Theory were racist. Racism is a belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others. A racist is anyone who agrees with this, that doesn't mean the racist will act on their belief. For example Darwin was a racist but he was against slavery for one particular individual. I suppose one could argue this makes his racism more commendable but by definition he is still a racist. One could argue the below quotes don't speak for the whole of those who subscribe to Evolutionary Theory, however I would like to point out that the below quotes are simply a logically correct application of the Theory of Evolution. The below individuals may be in error as to which race is superior but they are not in error in believing that Evolutionary Theory supports superior races. Darwin's disciple, T. H. Huxley, wrote, "It may be quite true that some negroes [sic] are better than some white men, but no rational man, cognizant of the facts, believes that the average negro [sic] is the equal, still less the superior, of the average white man....The highest places in the hierarchy of civilization will assuredly not be within the reach of our dusky cousins...." (I "siced" the above places not because he used the term, negro but because he did not capitalize it.) Edwin Conklin, professor of biology at Princeton University and president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, said that blacks had not evolved as far as whites and "Every consideration should lead those who believe in the superiority of the white race to strive to preserve its purity and to establish and maintain the segregation of the races, for the longer this is maintained, the greater the preponderance of the white race will be." Darwin claimed that the "fight for survival" also applied between human races. "Favored races" emerged victorious from this struggle. According to Darwin the favored race were the European whites. As for Asian and African races, they had fallen behind in the fight for survival. "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes … will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian and the gorilla." Reference Charles Darwin, "The Descent of Man", 2nd edition, New York, A L. Burt Co., 1874, p. 178 Henry Osborne, who was professor of biology and zoology at Columbia University, declared, "The Negroid stock is even more ancient than the Caucasian and Mongolian, as may be proved by an examination not only of the brain, of the hair, of the bodily characters. such as the teeth, the genitalia, the sense organs, but of the instincts, the intelligence. The standard of intelligence of the average Negro is similar to that of the eleven-year-old youth of the species Homo sapiens." "Looking to the world at no distant date, what an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized races throughout the world", Charles Darwin, Letter to W. Graham, July 3, 1881 Contention 3 Failed political beliefs for racial cleansing, such as the Nazis, were based on Evolution. Most will argue that Hitler incorrectly applied Evolutionary Theory and he certainly did have mixed up science, however his application that some races are superior to other races is a correct interpretation of Evolutionary Theory logic. Unfortunately the only argument one can make against Hitler's genocide in the realm of evolutionary theory is that he was wrong about which races were superior opposed to "no races are superior."; Evolution can not make such a claim. http://en.wikipedia.org...