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presenting war as a "biological necessity," Darwinism formed both the formal
justification for the First World War, as well as for various other warlike
tendencies in fascism. Crook writes:

Darwinist discourse conferred approval on a range of doctrines
glorifying power, status, elitism, conquest and repression. Differences
between cultures, genders, classes and races were reduced to fixed
biological differences, imprinted in humans during eons of selective
struggle. Darwin's conflict model generated militarist and racist
extrapolations that conferred approval on war and imperial struggle as
'biological necessities'. 9
From such [Darwinist] assumptions, a variety of unpleasant
consequences could be derived... War is rationalised... As Frederick
Wertham has argued, if violence 'is all in human nature, and if we are
all guilty, then nobody is guilty. And if we are all responsible, no man
is responsible' ...The First World War was portrayed as the final
vindication of the mythology of bestiality, encoded anew in terms of
neo-Darwinian genetics and instinct theory. 10
Darwin thought of using Hobbes's phrase 'war of nature' as a heading
to his chapter on struggle in his projected 'big book' Natural Selection
...He spoke of creatures 'overmastering' one another: 'through his
continual use of highly dramatic language representing the life of
organisms in nature as some heroic war, with attendant battles,
victories, famine, dearth, and destruction, Darwin creates the image of
a great literal struggle for existence – an image which pervades the
Origin.' 11
As Crook has stated, Darwin not only proposed that human beings
were a "species" descended from animals, but portrayed war and conflict as
"the origin of species." This fallacy would be the justification for the promotion

You who believe! Enter absolutely into peace (Islam).

Do not follow in the footsteps of Satan. He is an
outright enemy to you.

(Koran, 2:208)