RE: Do you feel (new) Atheist culture?
July 29, 2015 at 11:11 am
(This post was last modified: July 29, 2015 at 11:12 am by Alex K.)
(July 29, 2015 at 11:08 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:(July 29, 2015 at 10:45 am)BrokenQuill92 Wrote: "At some future period not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes...will no doubt be exterminated. The break between man and his nearest Allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as the baboon, instead of as now between the Negro or Australian and the gorilla"
That's not a veiw, so.much as a observation of results of imperialism. Unfortunately it's not far as ff the mark, as we have nearly completely killed off chimps and gorillas. Also more civilized doesnt mean better in this context it means more advanced.
From the quotes though it appears as though Darwin thought of different peoples as being sufficiently different in their inherited traits that natural selection based on that (and not on culture) would actually play a role in the struggle between the races - it doesn't, and so this is a point where he simply gets the science wrong. I do not think he endorses the killing off of "savage races", so much is clear from his statements about slavery alone.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition