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Originally Posted by photon
Apparently the Nazi connection is strong in this movie, natural selection being invoked by the Nazis so it must be false being the claim. Nazi's used physics too, the theory of gravity made the bombs fall, so the theory of gravity must be false.
Do these people even listen to themselves?
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I have a lot of problems with directly connecting Darwin to Hitler in this manner. I do think that the notion of natural selection and survival of the fittest can have an impact upon the mindset of those who are not willing to explore it philosophically.
There's quite a bit of philosophical/historical evidence that the notion of natural selection and species competition led to the race idea and the cultural circumstances that led to Nazism, Imperialism et al...
I don't think modern evolutionary theory suffers from this same problem to the same extent. And of course, it doesn't justify throwing out the theory on this basis, it just means being careful about your science.