Evolutionary thinking has led to many evils in society. Among those evils are racism, the holocaust and abortion

I Racism
First of all the rejection of God has led to Racism. Evolution is based on survival of the fittest and this has led many people to say that primitive tribes people are not fit to survive. When people first came in contact with the Aborigines in Australia they thought they had found the missing link. They thought that Aborigines were between man and the apes and tried to prove that. Of course Aborigines were no more the missing link than any of the other missing links. In 1861 a few years after Darwin had published his Origin of the Species advocating evolution there was a Royal Commision of inquiry aboout the use of force against the Aborigines and a police man gave evidence and he defended rough treatment of Aborigines He said " It is a question as to which is the strongest race- if we sbmit to them they would despise us for it" Also a writer justified the killing of Aborigines in the state of Victoria. He said. "to the sentimental it is undoubted ly an iniquity, to the practical it represents a distinct step in human progressm involving the sacrifice of a few thousands of an inferior race"
So killing was justified on the pretext of survival of the fittest
There was also a stroy a few years ago about how in United States thousands of people with mental illness had operations performed on them against their will to stop them having children. These operations wer particularly performed in Lynchburg in Virgina

II Holocaust
The holocaust in which millions of Jews and gypsies and others were slaughtered was justified on the grounds of evolutionary thinking. The whole thing was based on the notion of eugenics which was something that was started by Sir Franceis Galton a cousin of Charles Darwin. Eugenics was based on the notion that any one who was unfit should be weeded out for the greater good of the herd. (If evolution is true then you need to get rid of the weak) The Bible tells us that all men are created in the image of God. It tells us that man is more than just an animal. The Nazis killed whole wards of mental patients. When they did that many evolutionist praised them. One American evolutionist stated. "The Germans are beating us at our own game." Later the Nazis said that the Jews were an inferior race and therefore they should be exterminated but it was the evolutionary concept of Eugenis that was behind the holocaust.


III Abortion
Again the killing of unborn babies is growing because people are rejecting God. The Bible tells us of the value of human life. It tells us Thou shalt not kill Yet many are killing little babies because they no longer believe what the Bible shows us and that is the fact that life begins even in the womb.
In the United States there was an abortion clinic where they performed these operations to kill unborn babies. But when they were performing one operation the little baby was born alive. It was breathing itself even though it was barely doing so. They had not killed it before it could be born. So they were in a turmoil as to what to do. The lady had come in to have the baby killed but it was alive. So what they did is they beat it over the head until it was dead. They made sure it was dead.
But then the police got involved because the baby had been born and even in the eyes of a law that allowed abortion this was murder and the doctors were taken to court. But they got off and do you know how they got off. They said how is life defined and the answer medically speaking is that life is defined as electrical activity in the brian. But nobody had measured to see if there was electrical cactivity in the babies head and so legally it could not be proved it had been alive and so the doctors got off. That is what i mean by saying that when people stop believing in God there is no law and if there had been now God at all there would be no moral standards to measure ourselves against.

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