George William Hunter’s A Civic Biology: Presented in Problems (1914) was the book that sparked the controversy. Condemned as heretical in 1925, today it would seem to be a manual for enlightenment’s battle against religion’s perceived mysticism. Yet if John Scopes were to teach the very same Civic Biology in a modern classroom, he would probably be put on trial again. Because buried under the dust of history is the fact that this progressive, pro-evolution text was also quite racist.

Take, for example, these lines from page 196 of Hunter’s original version:

At the present time there exist upon the earth five races or varieties of man, each very different from the other in instincts, social customs, and, to an extent, in structure. These are the Ethiopian or negro type, originating in Africa; the Malay or brown race, from the islands of the Pacific; the American Indian; the Mongolian or yellow race, including the natives of China, Japan, and the Eskimos; and finally, the highest type of all, the Caucasians, represented by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe

Hunter was also a proponent of eugenics. “[T]he science of being well born,” his text instructed, is an imperative for sophisticated society. “When people marry there are certain things that the individual as well as the race should demand,” he wrote, arguing that tuberculosis, epilepsy, and even “feeble-mindedness are handicaps which it is not only unfair but criminal to hand down to posterity.”

“If such people were lower animals, we would probably kill them off to prevent them from spreading,” Hunter lamented in Civic Biology. “Humanity will not allow this but we do have the remedy of separating the sexes in asylums or other places and in various ways preventing intermarriage and the possibilities of perpetuating such a low and degenerate race.”

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Black people ‘less intelligent’ scientist claims

Science has often been used as a justification to propose, project, and enact racist social policies. The philosophical and political underpinnings of ideas associated with racial superiority and inferiority were first given scientific legitimacy and credence with the publication of Charles Darwin’s (1859) revolutionary book, The Origin of Species. In more recent times, the controversy surrounding the publication of Herrnstein and Murray’s (1994) presumably scientific study, The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, and the reintroduction to the national conversation of powerful arguments about race and human abilities, provide yet another opportunity to focus on questions pertinent to the origins, maintenance, and consequences of human abilities and potential. In the main, however, such studies and debates reveal far more about those proposing and advocating racist arguments than about the groups toward whom they are directed.

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On the Origin of Species
Subtitle or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life.

Author Charles Darwin

‘The German Führer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consciously sought to make the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.’

Reference
Keith, A., Evolution and Ethics, Putnam, NY, USA, p. 230, 1947.

BTW, I fought in the Iraq War, how about you?

after the muslim cartoons:

There is a genuine social concern here, I think. Muslims represent a poor and oppressed underclass, and those cartoons represent a ruling establishment intentionally taunting them and basically flipping them off. They have cause to be furious!

yes, the poor oppressed muslims!! such a kind, ‘concerned’ atheist about religous sensitivies….

christians on the other hand:

. Recently, he desecrated the Eucharist by obtaining a consecrated Host, nailing it, throwing it in the garbage, and posting a photograph of it on Pharyngula

so much for evolved ethics.

and on those who dare disagree with his hairygod darwin:

I say, screw the polite words and careful rhetoric. It’s time for scientists to break out the steel-toed boots and brass knuckles, and get out there and hammer on the lunatics and idiots

Sounds like the good atheist professor Myers has a final solution in mind for christians and those who disagree with evolution.

I’m sure you do to zerodemon

but I do feel sorry for you

such stupidity has to hurt!! and you are in a great deal of pain.

easily made fools of!!

evolve some intelligence.

FSM

Prove it!

there have been human footprints found by dinosaur tracks

but hey thats typical for a darwiniac!! even your ‘best’ and ‘brightest’ like dawkins are so easily made fools of!! perhaps you darwiniacs need to evolve some intelligence.

your posts reveal you have a lot of ‘evolving’ ahead of you!

victims of darwinism

let me guess you’re also pro-abortion!

evolution is a faith Theory

evaluation of your intelligence

long history of racism and eugenics genocide

I’m sure you’re very proud of that legacy!!

as far as intelligence…your evaluation of your intelligence is about as good as your defense of your hairygod darwin.

Keep it coming right4life. Every reader of MM’s site (if any are still paying attention) should be made aware that you are a perfect example of what otherwise intelligent Republican politicans have to pander to. All you need do is continue to post to make my case for me.

the world’s most famous scientist, Albert Einstein. Says he:
“Being a lover of freedom, when the revolution came in Germany, I looked to the universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the cause of truth; but, no, the universities immediately were silenced. Then I looked to the great editors of the newspapers whose flaming editorials in days gone by had proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few short weeks. . . .
“Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.”

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evolution in action today

I can see why you atheists are such rabid defenders of that racist eugenicist darwin…