It has been said that when only one viewpoint is given to our students, when they are not given the whole story with both sides explained in sufficient detail as to allow them to make decisions based on facts, then what is happening is nothing more than brainwashing. You may wonder if a famous person coined that phrase and you would be correct. That profound message of intelligent expression was handed out by none other than, ----Charles Darwin. It was written in his ground-breaking book, “The Origins of the Species.”
What Darwin was wisely trying to tell us was pretty much this: Yes, I have a radical new viewpoint, but that is not the only viewpoint out there and all of them have their good points as well as bad and all should be treated with the same respect. On the other hand, Eugenie Scott has said that both Creationism and Evolution cannot be taught in the public school system at the same time because that would cause confusion in the minds of the students. In other words, our children are morons who cannot be trusted with two sides of an issue. I have one word to say to that: Rubbish.
Our children are intelligent enough to decipher between one viewpoint and another and be able to choose which one they want to believe in. They have logic, same as adults, though they don’t always use it, and they have a brain that can make sense out of different scientific doctrines, and they should, logically, be able to decide according to their own beliefs and wisdom, which is most accurate. This, is a dangerous thing. If students were allowed to decide things for themselves then they could possibly choose something different from what the curriculum suggests. We can’t have that, can we?
The facts about Evolution are twisted, tangled, even mangled beyond belief. Many people assume that it’s simply a harmless alternative to the Creation story, but that is not exactly the case. In Darwin’s day he was quite puzzled by the fact that nobody wanted to embrace his new theory. Everyone was laughing at him, everyone that is, except Germany. Darwin acknowledge Germany as the front-runner in the battle to change everyone’s way of thinking. What he did not realize was just how seriously Germany was taking the idea of “natural selection”.
You see, according to Evolutionary theory, all matter of life on Earth has to battle with all other life in order to survive. “Survival of the fittest“ may be a cool expression, but it began with the theory of Evolution. In this manner, the weak and unfit species die out to be replaced by a stronger, healthier, more impressive species. This is the whole idea behind the Evolutionary hypothesis. Germany fully embraced this theory that all life must progress to become something better, and began initializing a process to help hurry evolution along a bit. What they began is called Eugenics, and they were not alone in the concept. Many nations, including the United States, began practicing forced sterilizations and forced abortions on people that were deemed “less than fit,” or “less than perfect”. In this way, they were hoping to achieve the next evolutionary rung of the ladder: A perfect human race.
Hitler pounced on evolutionary theory like a cat on a mouse, and he decided that there were sub-races of humans that did not need to exist any longer and should be wiped out so that the new, strong, perfect Aryan nation could arise out of the ashes of the less than acceptable. This is why ten million Jews were slaughtered during World War two, along with hundreds of thousands of Gypsies, and four million Christians, among others. If they were not slaughtered because of their genetics, they were slaughtered because of their personal religious beliefs, and nobody not completely loyal to the third Reich was safe from harm. People were killed in cold blood simply because they were disabled in some way, or had a less than perfect mind. Children born with birth defects were either killed outright or neglected and allowed to die, while at the same time Hitler was encouraging unmarried teenage girls who carried the genes of the so-called “Aryan race”, to get themselves pregnant so their babies could be raised by the Government to be brainwashed into the Aryan belief system. The girls jumped at this chance to do something for their homeland, and were well supported by the Government throughout their pregnancies. New babies were being brought into the world in droves and turned over to the Government, never to see their Mothers again.
Many of those babies, if deemed not quite perfect “Aryan” were used in painful and horrifying experiments, sterilized, and tortured, if they were allowed to remain alive at all. Many died alone and in terrible pain, probably not even comprehending why all of it was happening to them. This was Hitler’s method of assisting Evolution in its course to a perfect human race. All he really succeeded in doing was creating mass genocide that would never be forgotten, and making his country permanently linked to this horror. He did not create a master race and did not wipe the “inferior” races from the planet.
