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at the beginning of the 20th century, turned to eugenics, a product of paganism
and the theory of evolution. And, the scale of the savagery that this pagan-
evolutionary theory led to will be revealed when we consider the case of
Germany.

Ernst Haeckel: The Nazis' Racist Theoretician
The last name along the path from Darwin to the Nazis that we need to
consider is the zoologist Ernst Haeckel, Germany's best-known Darwinist and
a fanatical supporter of eugenics.
In the history of science, Haeckel is known for his theory that "ontogeny
recapitulates phylogeny." According to this evolutionary theory, Haeckel was
claiming that embryonic development repeats "evolutionary history." He
thought that the stages of embryonic development repeated the adult stages of
the ancestors of a species. In order to support his theory, which he developed
under the influence of Darwin,
Haeckel made a number of
drawings of embryos, in which, it
was later realized, he had made
deliberate distortions, and that his
theory was a forgery. Haeckel was
a charlatan who used falsified
evidence to make Darwinism
scientifically acceptable.
Another instance of
Haeckel's erroneous science is the
theory of eugenics. He adopted the
theory, from such names as Charles
Darwin, Francis Galton and
Leonard Darwin, and took it
further, by suggesting a return to
the Spartan model of ancient
Greece: In other words, to
murdering children! In his book
Wonders of Life, Haeckel proposed
the "destruction of abnormal new
Ernst Haeckel