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ence and technology were to fundamen- hand, had lagged behind in the fight for
tally undermine his theory, which was survival going on in the world. Darwin
the product of Darwin’s primitive know- went even further and suggested that
ledge of science. these races would soon lose the struggle
entirely and be eliminated altogether:
Darwinism At some future period, not very distant as
measured by centuries, the civilised ra-
— See Evolution Theory, the. ces of man will almost certainly extermi-
nate, and replace the savage races thro-
ughout the world. At the same time the
Darwinism and Racism anthropomorphous apes. . . will no doubt
be exterminated. The break between man
Most present-day Darwinists claim
and his nearest allies will then be wider,
that Charles Darwin was not actually a for it will intervene between man in a
racist, but that racists have interpreted more civilised state, as we may hope,
his ideas in a biased manner in order to even than the Caucasian, and some ape
support their own views. They maintain as low as a baboon, instead of as now
that the expression “by means of The between the negro or Australian and the
Preservation of Favored Races” in the gorilla. 109
subtitle of his book The Origin of Speci- In another chapter of The Descent of
es is meant solely for animals. However, Man, Darwin claimed that inferior races
those who make such claims ignore what should disappear, and that there was no
Darwin actually said about human races need for advanced human beings to pro-
in his book The Descent of Man. tect them and seek to keep them alive.
According to the views that by Dar- He compared this situation to livestock
win set out in that book, the different hu- breeders:
man races represented different stages of
evolution, and some races were more
highly “evolved” and thus advanced
than others. Some, in fact, were pretty
much at the same level as apes.
Darwin suggested that the struggle
for survival also applied to human races,
(See Struggle for Survival, the.) In the
course of that struggle, favored races
would be victorious. According to Dar-
win, these favored were European whi-
tes. Asians and Africans, on the other E Enslaved African natives s
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Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)