Sir Arthur Keith, the well-known evolutionist, explains how Hitler was only being consistent in what he did to the Jews he was applying the principles of Darwinian evolution. In Evolution and Ethics, he said: "To see evolutionary measures and tribal morality being applied vigorously to the affairs of a great modern nation, we must turn again to Germany of 1942. We see Hitler devoutly convinced that evolution produces the only real basis for a national policy. ... The means he adopted to secure the destiny of his race and people were organized slaughter, which has drenched Europe in blood. ... Such conduct is highly immoral as measured by every scale of ethics, yet Germany justifies it; it is consonant with tribal or evolutionary morality. Germany has reverted to the tribal past, and is demonstrating to the world, in their naked ferocity, the methods of evolution."2

2. Racism and Evolution

Stephen J. Gould, in Natural History (April 1980, p. 144), said that "Recapitulation [the evolutionary theory which postulates that a developing embryo in its mothers womb goes through evolutionary stages, such as the fish stage, etc., until it becomes human] provided a convenient focus for the pervasive racism of white scientists; they looked to the activities of their own children for comparison with normal, adult behavior in lower races" (brackets mine). Gould also concludes that the term "mongoloid" became synonymous with mentally defective people because it was believed the Caucasian race was more highly developed than the Mongoloid. Therefore, some thought that a mentally defective child was really a throwback to a previous stage in evolution.

The leading American paleontologist of the first half of the 20th century, Henry Fairchild Osborne, adds fuel to the fire with his belief that "The Negroid stock is even more ancient than the Caucasian and Mongolian. ... The standard of intelligence of the average adult Negro is similar to that of the eleven year old of the species Homo sapiens."3

Many of the early settlers of Australia considered the Australian Aborigines to be less intelligent than the "white man," because aborigines had not evolved as far as whites on the evolutionary scale. In fact, the Hobart Museum in Tasmania (Australia) in 1984 listed this as one of the reasons why early white settlers killed as many aborigines as they could in that state. In 1924, the New York Tribune (Sunday, February 10) had a very large article telling their readers that the missing link had been found in Australia. The missing link referred to happened to be aborigines from the state of Tasmania.4

The incredible thing is that we live in a society that states it wants to be rid of racist attitudes. Yet we are conditioned to racist attitudes by our very education system, and the whole foundational basis for racism permeates peoples minds.