Page 581 - Atlas of Creation Volume 3

Harun Yahya

In an article, researcher and author Ian Taylor has this to say about the degenerate ideas in Malthus's
thesis:

The lesson in all this is that Darwin and others who reject both God and the promise of His providence and
intervention have found in the Malthus principle a terrifying spectre of tragedy and despair that has driven
them into unspeakable ethical and absurd scientific propositions. This in spite of the obvious weaknesses

and deficiencies in Malthus argument. 16

Although science refuted Malthus's "ruthless, despair-inducing, nonsensical" claim, it has still man-
aged to remain influential up to the present day. Ian Taylor's book In the Minds of Men summarizes the
chain of ruthlessness that began with Malthus and ended with Hitler:

The maxim on which Malthus based his thinking was what later became the "survival of the fittest" theme.
The notion can be traced from Condorcet to Malthus, to Spencer, to Wallace, and to Darwin. It eventually

mushroomed out to influence men such as Adolf Hitler, but we should be reminded that it all began in the
tale of the goats and dogs. 17

As we have seen, various administrators and leaders sought to use Malthus's opinions to mask their
own interests. Various opinion formers with their own ideological concerns played an important role in
those views receiving such wide acceptance. The disasters caused by the support given to this ruthless
world view, were on a scale never been seen before. In the following pages, we shall examine how this

merciless world view that began with Malthus gained strength under the name of Social Darwinism—
and what it cost humanity.

Malthus's distorted logic was
also applied to children, many
of whom were forced to work
under very harsh conditions.

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