Page 671 - Atlas of Creation Volume 3

Harun Yahya

The graph to the side shows
the enormous rise in crime
levels over the last 30 years.
The more societies distance
themselves from religious
moral values, the greater the
ensuing moral collapse and
crime levels.

has formed a shelter under which idiots and cretins have crept and bred." Again according to Ross: "The

state gathers the deaf mutes into its sheltering arm, and a race of deaf mutes is in process of formation."
Since these actions obstruct so-called natural evolutionary development, he declared that the shortest
way to better this world was to leave all such people on their own to be eventually eliminated through
natural selection. 176

What a ruthless view this is! Man is possessed of a conscience, and conscience commands one to pro-
tect the weak, the down-and-out and the poor. Otherwise, if man loses his ability "to think like a human
being," then he really will achieve a position inferior to that of animals—because animals show great sol-
idarity and cooperation. (For detailed information, see Harun Yahya's Devotion Among Animals: Revealing

the Work of God, Global Publishing, Istanbul.)
Ross is not the only Social Darwinist to place scant value on human life. A great many share his ter-
rifying ideas. For example, the evolutionist Peter Singer, Princeton University's professor of bioethics,
goes so far as to say that people with severe physical handicaps must be regarded as unworthy of life.

He expressed this cruel opinion in the following terms:

If we compare a severely defective human infant with ... a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the
nonhuman to have superior capacities... Only the fact that the defective infant is a member of the species
Homo sapiens leads it to be treated differently from the dog or pig. Species alone, however, is not morally rel-
evant... 177

Singer went even further and said that the mentally handicapped might be killed in scientific ex-

periments or even for food purposes! Singer's exact words are:

Mental defectives do not have a right to life, and therefore might be killed for food – if we should develop a
taste for human flesh – or for the purpose of scientific experimentation. 178

Even such revolting and savage behavior can be supported in Darwinist logic. Joseph Fletcher, for-
mer president of the Right to Die Society, makes a similar claim regarding the mentally handicapped:

Humans without some minimum of intelligence or mental capacity are not persons, no matter how many of
their organs are active, no matter how spontaneous their living processes ... [Idiots] are not, never were, and

never will be in any degree responsible. Idiots, that is to say, are not human. 179

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