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complete racist. As a matter of fact, in the words of the author of the book
What Darwin Really Said, Benjamin Farrington, Darwin made many com-
ments regarding "the greater differences between men of distinct races"
in his book The Descent of Man. 11
Furthermore, Darwin's theory's denying the existence of God had
been the cause of peoples' not seeing that man was something created by
God and that all men were created equal. And this was one of the factors
behind the rise of racism and the acceleration of its acceptance in the
world. The American scientist James Ferguson announces the strict link
between the denial of creation and the rise of racism in this way:
The new anthropology soon became a theoretical background between two
opposed schools of thought on the origin of humans. The older and more
established of these was 'monogenism,' the belief that all humankind, irre-
spective of colour and other characteristics, was directly descended from
Adam and from the single and original act of God's creation. Monogenism
was promulgated by the Church and universally accepted until the 18th
century, when opposition to theological authority began to fuel the rival
theory of 'polygenism,' (theory of evolution) which held that different
racial communities had different origins. 12
The Indian anthropologist Lalita Vidyarthi explains how Darwin's
theory of evolution led racism to be accepted by social sciences:
His (Darwin's) theory of the survival of the fittest was warmly welcomed
by the social scientists of the day, and they believed mankind had achieved
various levels of evolution culminating in the white man's civilization. By
the second half of the nineteenth century racism was accepted as fact by
the vast majority of Western scientists. 13
As for the Darwinists who came after Darwin, they put up a great
struggle to prove his racist views. In the name of doing so they had no
scruples about making many scientific inconsistencies and falsehoods.
They thought that when they had proved these, they would have scien-
tifically proven their own superiority and "rights" to oppress, colonise,
and if needs be exterminate other races.
In the third chapter of his book The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay