Now that his plan has backfired drastically (his own website has removed the link to his “Introduction” of Darwin’s book) and more people were offended by his distortions than anything else, let me briefly point out some useful information. Comfort makes the following assertions in his introduction:
Adolf Hitler took Darwin’s evolutionary philosophy to its logical conclusions [and] the legacy of Darwin’s theory can be seen in the rise of eugenics, euthanasia, infanticide, and abortion.
As the National Center for Scientific Education has pointed out:
This is simply hyperbole on Comfort’s part. This laundry-list of unrelated controversial issues is meant to inflame passions rather than inform.
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Original post by Eric Michael Johnson none@example.com