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Originally Posted by photon
No, it wasn't. Darwin's books were banned materials. Genocide and racism existed FAR before Darwin did. I don't see any evidence at all that the Nazis read Darwin and based their policies on anything there.
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It wasn't direct through Darwin but through some of his philosophical contemporaries. I can suggest the writings of Eric Voegelin for confirmation.
The overall issue, as Voegelin puts it, is gnostic scientism. The idea that science, not philosophy, separates spirit from nature and reduces it to a set of rules. I'm not saying that Darwin's ideas were not horribly twisted as soon as he wrote them down, but thus is the danger of human interpretation.