Jerry Bergman - The Darwin Effect: Its Influence on Nazism, Eugenics, Racism, Communism, Capitalism and Sexism

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Those who enjoy having their scholastic taste buds stimulated will experience this book like a smorgasbord of mind-grabbing topics. As you read, you will appreciate the depth and breadth of the subject and continue looking forward to more and more intriguing material on the nefarious influence of Darwinism on modern society.

Wayne Frair, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Biology

The Kings College, New York

Jerry Bergmans The Darwin Effect is both comprehensive and compelling. The book is revealing in its detail and at the same time damning with its evidence of a totally destructive worldview. I highly recommend it.

Emerson Thomas McMullen, PhD, Department of History

Georgia Southern University

The Darwin Effect is a sobering look at the grim reality of what happens to societies whose people really come to believe that all that exists is the result of nothing more than chance and time. Bergman pulls no punches in this eye-opening history of the consequences of the 19th centurys most destructive idea.

Steven E. Woodworth, PhD, Associate Professor of History

Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX

This book is a tale of a reverse Midas touch. Instead of turning to gold, everything the Darwinian worldview touches turns filthy and corroded. Bergman documents a plethora of examples that show the dark side of Darwinism racism, sexism, communism, hate, and more. Yet, unlike the Midas fable where Midas learns a lesson and all is made right, there is no happy ending to Bergmans tale... so far. But perhaps there is hope if enough people come to realize what Darwinism and evolution are doing to mankind.

Professor David J. Oberpriller, Computer Science Department

Arizona Christian University

Acknowledgments

I want to thank Emerson Thomas McMullen, PhD, Steven E. Woodworth, PhD, Wayne Frair, PhD, Dr. David Herbert, Professor David Oberpriller, Bryce Gaudian, Bert Thompson, PhD, Clifford Lillo, MA, Robert Kofahl, PhD, Jody Allen, RN, and Professor Aeron Bergman, MA for their feedback on earlier drafts of this work. Needless to say, all mistakes that remain are mine. I also want to thank Bolton Davidheiser, PhD, John Woodmorappe, MA, and Ian Taylor for their comments on earlier drafts of this book.

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Table of Contents

Foreword

In the spring of 2008 outside the gates of the University of Western Ontario, I approached a second-year philosophy student and asked if he would complete a questionnaire relating to my book, Charles Darwins Religious Views (2009). In an ensuing conversation, he, being an avowed atheist and evolutionist, declared in no uncertain terms that all moral values were totally relativistic. I asked him if a man molested a seven-year-old girl (the ages of my two granddaughters at that time), was such an act wrong? He calmly replied, Absolutely not! Remember, we are nothing more than animals.

Dr. Jerry Bergmans newest book, The Darwin Effect , traces the roots of this university students heinous mode of reasoning. Dr. Bergman correctly identified the evolutionary writings of Charles Darwin, especially The Origin of Species (1859) and Descent of Man (1871), as a major contributing factor. Evolutionism, ensconced within a naturalistic worldview, emerged as a dominant religious perspective in the 20th century. Within this time frame, eugenics the application of evolutionary dogma upon humans left an unspeakable carnage in its wake.

Francis Galton, Charles Darwins cousin, was the founder and publicist of the eugenics movement. Having died in 1911, he never witnessed the untold worldwide suffering that his villainous philosophy caused. Eugenics, placed in the hearts and hands of such maniacal autocrats as Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, and Chairman Mao, resulted in a predictable maelstrom. Dr. Bergman has estimated that this diabolical trio caused 400 million people to perish.

H.G. Wells, a prolific writer of some 100 books, is renowned for his The Outline of History (1920) of which, remarkably, some two million copies have been sold. One is not surprised with his ardent evolutionary bias in view of the fact that Wells was a student of T.H. Huxley, Darwins bulldog. But most disconcerting was his firm commitment to eugenics. He publicly advocated the elimination of the so-called unfit those with incurable diseases, the mentally ill, and the disabled. Furthermore, he sympathized with Nazism and its desire to form a white superior Aryan race.

Dr. Bergmans portrayal of Ota Benga poignantly illustrates the disastrous effects that Darwinism can have on an individual. The mistreatment and eventual suicide of this Congolese Pygmy has to be one of the darker moments of American racism. This well-researched book is an excellent companion volume to Dr. Bergmans The Dark Side of Charles Darwin (2011).

Dr. David Herbert, historian (www.diherbert.ca) (Dr. Herbert earned his doctorate from the University of Toronto.)

References

Herbert, David. Charles Darwins Religious Views . Kitchener, Ontario, Canada: Joshua Press, 2009.

Chapter 1

Introduction

T his book documents how often and how easily Darwinism has been exploited for sinister political ends by a wide assortment of persons and movements (Sebastian and Bohlin 2009). Since the turn of the last century, a large number of professors and scientists became Darwinists, and, as a result, had an enormous influence and effect on society.

For example, historian Professor Aziz wrote that with the exception of several isolated cases of courage, the German University as a whole accepted without protest the notion that the medical people should be accomplices to the massacre of so-called less fit humans during the Nazi rule in Germany (Aziz 1976, 113). Aziz added that almost a third of the psychiatry department chairmen [in Nazi Germany] were participating in the [eugenics] program as experts in the selection and elimination of the mentally ill (Aziz 1976, 113). Worldwide, even many Jews were involved in/or supported eugenics, although in contrast to the German eugenists conclusion, the ethnic groups they thought were inferior were all non-Jews, not Jews (Glad 2011).

This book, and my two other books in this series, The Dark Side of Charles Darwin and Hitler and the Nazis Darwinian Worldview: How the Nazis Eugenic Crusade for a Superior Race Caused the Greatest Holocaust in World History document the fact that Darwin was responsible, directly and indirectly, for more holocausts, suffering, and destruction of property than any other man in history. As this book documents, his ideas inspired not only Nazism, but also communism and ruthless capitalism, costing the lives of an estimated up to one-quarter billion persons. Barrett et al has documented that in the last century 45.5 million Christians were martyred, a large number specifically by movements inspired by Charles Darwin, who in turn was a major influence on the former-Christian-turned-atheist Karl Marx, as documented in chapters 14 and 15 (2001). It is sometimes argued that someone else would have come along to achieve what Darwin did, which may be true, but this rationalization is like saying that if Hitler did not exist, someone else would have caused the same horrors in Germany that he did. Therefore, Hitler was not a bad guy because the Holocaust that he and his close followers brought about would have occurred anyway.