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Harun Yahya

The native Australians or
Aborigines, whom Darwinists
regarded as inferior, are no
different from any other race.
The photo on the right shows
the native Australian athlete
Cathy Freeman lighting the
2000 Olympic flame.

blacks in the USA and against the native
Aborigines in Australia, and the neo-Nazi move-
ment that from time to time raises its head in var-
ious European countries. All gained strength from

the alleged scientific support provided by Darwinism. (For further details on the connection between
fascism, racism and Darwinism, see Harun Yahya's Fascism: The Bloody Ideology of Darwinism, Kultur
Publishing, April 2002.)
Nor were Darwin's racist statements limited to these. For example, in The Voyage of the Beagle, pub-

lished before The Origin of Species, he speaks of encountering "backward" human races from Tierra del
Fuego:

It was without exception the most curious & interesting spectacle I ever beheld. I would not have believed
how entire the difference between savage & civilised man is. It is much greater than between a wild & do-

mesticated animal... [I] believe if the world was searched, no lower grade of man could be found. 47
This is how Darwin describes the native people of Patagonia, whom he calls "barbarian":

Perhaps nothing is more certain to create astonishment than the first sight in his native haunt of a barbar-

ian—of man in his lowest and most savage state. One's mind hurries back over past centuries, and then asks,
could our progenitors have been men like these?—men, whose very signs and expressions are less intelligi-
ble to us than those of the domesticated animals... I do not believe it is possible to describe or paint the dif-
ference between savage and civilised man. 48

In a letter to Charles Kingsley, Darwin described the Fuegian natives he saw:

I declare the thought, when I first saw in Tierra del Feugo a naked, painted, shivering, hideous savage, that
my ancestors must have been somewhat similar beings, was at that time as revolting to me, nay more re-

volting, than my present belief that an incomparably more remote ancestor was a hairy beast. Monkeys have
downright good hearts. 49

All these are important indications of Darwin's racism. Disparaging certain races as much as he can,
he humanizes and praises apes by referring to them as good-hearted animals. He openly
maintained that "inferior" races needed to be eliminated, that this consequence of natural

selection would make a major contribution to the advance of civilization, as in a letter to
the scientist W. Graham in July 1881:

I could show fight on natural selection having done and doing more for the progress of civ-
ilization than you seem inclined to admit. Remember what risk the nations of Europe ran,
not so many centuries ago of being overwhelmed by the Turks, and how ridiculous such

an idea now is! The more civilised so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turkish
hollow in the struggle for existence. Looking to the world at no very distant date, what
an endless number of the lower races will have been eliminated by the higher civilized

races throughout the world. 50

Darwin's book The Voyage of the Beagle

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