Page 617 - Atlas of Creation Volume 3

Harun Yahya

Social Darwinist ideas that
encouraged conflict afflicted
millions all over the world.
Babies crying over the body
of their dead mother are just
a part of the great suffering
inflicted by war.

selves, they took it for
granted that all strug-

gles in life must be
struggles for life, and
the death of the loser
its "natural" goal. 82

In the same book,

Barzun described how
Europe in particular fell under the influence of Darwinism's
racist, militaristic tenants:

In every European country between 1870 and 1914
there was a war party demanding armaments, an

individualist party demanding ruthless compe-
tition, an imperialist party demanding a free
hand over backward peoples, a social-
ist party demanding the conquest of
power, and a racialist party de-

manding internal purges
against aliens—all of them,
when appeals to greed and

glory failed, or even before, in-
voked Spencer and Darwin,
which was to say, science in-
carnate. ... Race was biologi-
cal, it was sociological; it

was Darwinian. 83

These deceptions, identi-
fied and described by many
academics, account for the 20th
century's history of war,

slaughter and genocide.

A Polish girl whose older
sister was killed by the
Nazis in 1939.