On the Bones of the Dead

Having utterly lost the battle for credibility within the scientific community, the Intelligent Design Creationist movement has embraced a new tactic in their war against science. It’s a game of guilt by association in an instance were the association is entirely a figment of their own twisted imaginations. The argument goes like this: Darwinism = Nazism, Evolution = Anti-Semitism, Science = Holocaust. It is not enough, it appears, to fabricate whole lies about what The Theory of Evolution is, what it means and what it says, these sad, demented losers, and their mascot Ben Stein, have to build their lies on the bodies of the victims of the greatest crime in human history. Having lost every appeal that they have ever made to reason, they now appeal to hysteria by trying to connect Darwin to Hitler, and in the process are spitting on the memory of six million murdered Jews.

It is probably true that there would have been no Zyklon B without science. Neither would there have been the atomic bombs used to ravage Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Science and engineering allow us to discover and manipulate forces that can be used to slaughter millions, if we are so inclined morally to use them that way. Whether or not scientists and engineers should consider these facts before gifting humankind with such power is a valid question, but not related to the poorly drawn conclusions concocted by the IDC crowd. Their argument is that the notion of biological evolution, the brilliant explanation of the simple process by which life flourishes and diversifies, can turn us all into stark raving genocidal maniacs.

The truth is that the Holocaust was more deeply rooted in the Christian tradition of Anti-Semitism and the Colonial Era notion of race than it ever was in the Theory of Evolution. Certainly Adolf Hitler and the upper echelons of the Nazi leadership were influenced by Darwinism, but only as much as any late 19^th Century and early 20^th Century person would have been. Any true student of Darwin would have rejected the idea that one needs to segregate or slaughter people of another race. The well adapted will thrive in their environment, while the poorly adapted will fail. There was never any need for any extraordinary measures to be taken to ensure either event. If Hitler were truly convinced of the superiority of the German people, and even remotely understood the basic concepts of evolution, he would have been happy to have such strong Aryan Volk live in direct competition with Jews, Slavs and other so-called lesser people.

Like Hitler, these Intelligent Design Creationists are using the Jews to advance their own pathetic agenda. Having nothing real to offer, they can only make noise to frighten children and the gullible. Their attempt to rewrite the history of the Holocaust and displace the moral failures of Christian Europe onto a theory that merely describes a natural process is beyond preposterous. They are as morally bankrupt as the Holocaust deniers who pretend that the crime never happened in the first place. They dig up the bones of the dead to build their sad little house of lies and commit new atrocities upon all of the Holocaust’s victims.