Do you know the full title of the Book Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin? It is On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Yes, but do
you know how "races" was used in Darwin's day?
In biology "races" and "variety" were the same. So there were "races/varieties" of oaks and barnacles and elephants, etc. In terms of humans "race" referred to much smaller groupings than the 3 "races" used later. The Irish were a "race", so were the people of Tierra del Fuego, Tahiti, the French, the Germans, etc.
and in his next book, Darwin suggested that inferior races would die out leaving the superior white race only.
You haven't ever read the quote, have you? This is it:
"The great break in the organic chain between man and his nearest allies, which cannot be bridged over by any extinct or living species, has often been advanced as a grave objection to the belief that man is descended from some lower form; but this objection will not appear of much weight to those who, from general reasons, believe in the general principle of evolution. Breaks often occur in all parts of the series, some being wide, sharp and defined, others less so in various degrees; as between the orang and its nearest allies between the Tarsius and the other Lemuridæbetween the elephant, and in a more striking manner between the Ornithorhynchus or Echidna, and all other mammals. But these breaks depend merely on the number of related forms which have become extinct. At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked,18 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 civilised 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."
1. Darwin
never mentioned "white race". Instead, he talked about "civilized race
s", plural.
2. The quote is explaining the apparent "gap" between apes and humans, not about racism.
It is a racist treatise that was used to justify British colonialism and later influenced Hitler in his "master race" theory.
Actually,
Origin of Species is against both. For instance, look at this quote:
"The doctrine of the origin of our several domestic races from several aboriginal stocks, has been carried to an absurd extreme by some authors. The believe that every race which breeds true, let the distinctive characters be ever so slight, has had its wild prototype." page 40.
This blows away the idea that the British or even "Aryan" races are distinct.
In reality, Hitler got his racism from
creationism. He viewed races as distinct creations and Nazi racism is traced back to Gobineau, not Darwin. As just one example of Hitler's views, here's a quote by Hitler:
"The two Christian denominations look on with indifference at the profanation and destruction of a noble and unique creature who was given to the world as a gift of Gods grace. For the future of the world, however, it does not matter which of the two triumphs over the other, the Catholic or the Protestant. But it does matter whether Aryan humanity survives or perishes. And yet the two Christian denominations are not contending against the destroyer of Aryan humanity but are trying to destroy one another. Everybody who has the right kind of feeling for his country is solemnly bound, each within his own denomination, to see to it that he is not constantly talking about the Will of God merely from the lips but that in actual fact he fulfils the Will of God and does not allow Gods handiwork to be debased. For it was by the Will of God that men were made of a certain bodily shape, were given their natures and their faculties. Whoever destroys His work wages war against Gods Creation and Gods Will." Mein Kampf (p.310)
Microevolution does indeed occur. But macroevolution does not. It goes against the 2nd law of thermodynamics.
I am embarrassed for you. If the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics were violated in going from the simple to complex, you could not be here. After all, you started as a relatively simple single cell and are now a very complex organism of trillions of cells.
What this means is that the SLOT does not work the way you think it does. Local increases in order and complexity can happen as long as the
total disorder of the universe inceases. And that is what happens. I can explain this in greater detail if you want.
In short, you have been listening to people who have given you a
lot of false witness. I know you trusted them but, I'm sorry to say, they betrayed your trust. We are trying to give you the correct information. We hope you will be able to listen.
