Page 49 - The Disasters Darwinism Brought To Humanity

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theses of "natural selection," "the fight for survival," and "the survival of
the fittest."
All these terrible things the Australian natives suffered were just one
small part of the catastrophes Darwinism has brought to the world.
Ota Benga
After Darwin claimed in The Origin of Species that human beings had
developed from a common ancestor they shared with monkeys, the
search for fossils to support this scenario began. But some evolutionists
believed that "half-monkey half-man" creatures might
be found not only in the fossil record, but also living in
various parts of the world. At the beginning of the 20 th
century the searches for the "missing link" were the
cause of many acts of savagery. One of these was the
story of the pigmy Ota Benga.
Ota Benga was captured in the Congo by an evolu-
tionist researcher called Samuel Verner in 1904. This
native, whose name meant "friend" in his own language,
was married and the father of two children. But he was
chained like an animal, put in a cage, and
sent to the U.S.A. There, the evolutionary
scientists put him in a cage with various
species of monkey at the St. Louis World

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Ota Benga was a
native of Africa. He
was trapped like an
animal by evolution-
ary researchers, put
in a cage, and exhib-
ited alongside mon-
keys in a zoo.