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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I think that this is an assumption on your part. Was Naziism a misapplied "Darwinian ideology"? I don't know of anyone without their own ideological agenda who has declared as much. I believe that the onus is upon you to prove it.
What's the point, then? Virtually the same thing can be said of almost any academic/philosophical/religious enterprise. This seems like a moot point to make, so why make it in the first place? Anything when it is misapplied has the capacity to result in tragedy.
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I'm sorry if my points aren't totally clear. I'm bouncing around some ideas for an MA in which I want to examine how Darwinism, as an ideology, fits in with the tenets of New Left ideology. So I'm really just thinking half-formed ideas out loud. I am also not in any sense an intellectual ally of Ben Stein, so please don't mistake this as some sort of Creationist/Fundamentalist-driven hidden attack.
In regards to your points... we don't live in a relativistic world, some philosophical enterprises fit better with human nature than others. I think that Darwinism struggles to provide intrinsic value in each human being. Darwinism was certainly twisted to fit Nazism, but from a social perspective, the processes of Natural Selection put the same value on human life as National Socialism.
Science is science, certainly, but politics is politics.
When people are viewed simply as material organisms, instead of say... being made in the image of God, then socially, people are less valued. Now, I'm not being so ridiculous as to say that Darwinism is responsible for moral decay, merely to say that it should stay within the realm of science and not be allowed to venture outwards.