Richard Weikart on How Darwinism Fueled Scientific Racism

Episode 1358 September 21, 2020 00:13:23
Richard Weikart on How Darwinism Fueled Scientific Racism
Intelligent Design the Future
Richard Weikart on How Darwinism Fueled Scientific Racism

Sep 21 2020 | 00:13:23

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, historian and Cal State Stanislaus emeritus professor Richard Weikart speaks with host Michael Keas about the dark history of “scientific” racism. Racism, of course, long pre-dated Darwinism, but as Weikart argues, Darwin and Darwinian evolutionary theory greatly fueled racist thinking in the late nineteenth century and even down to the present. Weikart notes that Darwin himself was “intensely racist,” writing (The Descent of Man, 1871) that “at some time the civilized races of man will exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races.” Darwin didn’t merely predict this; he thought it would advance human evolution. His cousin Francis Galton, a strong proponent of eugenics, agreed, as did Margaret Sanger a few years later. (Part 1 of a 2-part conversation.)

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