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From Darwin to Hitler | Prof. Richard Weikart
After Darwinian theory emerged and became more influential in the late nineteenth century, it gave impetus to various ideologies and movements that devalued human life. It provided fuel for eugenics and euthanasia and also supported scientific racism. Hitler embraced a form of evolutionary ethics that blended eugenics, euthanasia, and scientific racism together, producing some of the worst atrocities in the twentieth century.
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Prof. Richard Weikart
Richard Weikart is currently professor emeritus of modern European history at California State University, Stanislaus, where he taught for 30 years. He is also a senior fellow at Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture. His research and scholarship has focused on the implications of Darwinism for human life and its connections with Nazi ideology. He has published eight books, including From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany, Hitler's Ethic: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress, Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism, The Death of Humanity: And the Case for Life, and Hitler Religion. He has appeared in ten documentaries, including Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed with Ben Stein. He has been interviewed on hundreds of radio, podcast, and TV programs and has spoken at universities, churches, and other venues in the US, Europe, and Africa.
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