Page 93 - The Intellectual Struggle Against Darwinism

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fact, Darwinian ideas had a tremendous influence on causing
World War II, the loss of 40 million lives, and the waste of
about 6 trillion dollars. Firmly convinced that evolution was
true, Hitler saw himself as the modern savior of mankind… By
breeding a superior race, the world would look upon him as
the man who pulled humanity up to a higher level of evolu-
tion. 21

Of course, there had been countless wars before Darwin ever
proposed his theory. But under the influence of the theory of evo-
lution, war was for the first time legitimated and supported by
science. In an article titled "The Philosophy and Morals of War,"
which elicited a huge reaction in America, Max Nordau stressed
Darwin's negative role on the subject of war:
The greatest authority of all the advocates of war is Darwin.
Since the theory of evolution has been promulgated, they can
cover their natural barbarism with the name of Darwin and
proclaim the sanguinary instincts of their inmost hearts as the
last word of science. 22
Darwinism led the way for all the ideas that would result in
war and its supposed scientific foundations. Despots who viewed
war as an indispensable condition for human progress caused the
slaughter of millions. Historians, sociologists and even evolution-

ists themselves, openly express the savagery for which
Darwinism laid the foundations. It is obviously a grave error to
try to reconcile Darwinism with Islam, the religion of peace, love
and tolerance. Muslims must scrupulously avoid such a mistake
and must have no hesitations about waging an intellectual strug-
gle against Darwinism, an ideology that legitimizes the ruthless
slaughter of innocents.

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