(1) — called the Kitzmiller v. Dover decision a “victory for students.”
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/Re.....841_90.htm

(2) — had that crackpot Judge Jones as a guest speaker at a national executive committee meeting.
http://www.adl.org/Civil_Right....._jones.asp

(3) — submitted an amicus brief supporting the plaintiffs/appellees in the Selman v. Cobb County evolution-disclaimer textbook sticker case and gave an “Unsung Hero Award” to lead plaintiff Jeffrey Selman –
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/Re.....737_90.htm

(4) — called students “the real winners” in the Great Cobb County Cop-out, where the Cobb County school board took a dive by settling out of court with the plaintiffs even though the school board was ahead (the district court decision was vacated and remanded because of missing evidence and the appeals court judges indicated at an oral hearing that they were leaning towards reversal) –
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/Re.....949_90.htm

(5) — condemned the Darwin-to-Hitler “Darwin’s Deadly Legacy” TV show produced by Coral Ridge Ministries.
http://www.adl.org/PresRele/HolNa_52/4877_52.htm

(6) — While condemning linkage of Social Darwinism to the holocaust, the hypocritical ADL has no qualms about linking “Christian antisemitic ideology” to the holocaust.
http://www.adl.org/education/d.....issue2.asp

(7) — filed an amicus brief in Edwards v. Aguillard 482 U.S. 578, 580 (1987), showing that ADL opposition to criticisms of Darwinism is not new (the American Jewish Congress filed a separate amicus brief) –
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/.....nvol=578#t*

What in the hell does the evolution controversy got to do with anti-semitism? Ironically, orthodox Jews tend to be some of the biggest supporters of creationism and Intelligent Design. See –

http://im-from-missouri.blogsp.....er-is.html

http://im-from-missouri.blogsp.....ss-of.html

http://im-from-missouri.blogsp.....idism.html

http://im-from-missouri.blogsp.....-they.html

…quoting Mein Kampf in an attempt to try and show that Hitler thought he was doing God’s work was a low blow.

Hitler first rose to power by winning an election, so it’s hardly a surprise that he used Christian rhetoric. He was a politician, for goodness sake, trying to appeal to the German electorate, which included a lot of clueless Christians. Perverting the right ways of the Lord

Perverting the right ways of the Lord is hardly a new tactic.
Since Der Füror’s actions, after coming to power, followed Darwin’s words (check 27 et. al.), pointing out the link between the two may indeed be an instance of “Godwin’s law”, since that “law” says nothing of whether or not such a link is apt. However methinks the polemic “law” that Mr. McNeil was reaching for was Reductio ad Hitlerum.

f.blair @ 74

Don’t forget selective breeding is even mentioned in the bible!

Oh yeah? Where?

Larry,
In that case if Christianity influenced the founders of America and if America influenced the Nazi eugenics program then it seems we could trace the owners of the problem back as far as we like!

Judge Jones said that it is “very clear” that Christianity did not influence the Founders, and who are we to question Judge Jones? He said in his Dickinson College commencement speech,

. . . .this much is very clear. The Founders believed that true religion was not something handed down by a church or contained in a Bible, but was to be found through free, rational inquiry. At bottom then, this core set of beliefs led the Founders, who constantly engaged and questioned things, to secure their idea of religious freedom by barring any alliance between church and state.

– from
http://www.dickinson.edu/comme.....dress.html

But aren’t we sensitive when the obvious is pointed out on an obscure little site on the Web—that the mass murder wrought by totalitarian regimes in the last century can be credibly linked to Darwinism on many levels? Let me see—where should we begin? We are all aware, I assume, that Lenin and Mao both claimed Marx as their spiritual guru? And we are also aware that Marx loved Darwin’s theory? We know enough about history, don’t we, to realize that Marx made the elimination of religion a necessary condition of his utopia? And that Darwin’s theory was used to legitimatize this noble goal?

And we are all aware, of course, that Hitler based his notions of the superiority of the German nation on the superman and the will to power? That Hitler literally venerated Nietzsche? That the Final Solution was about race purification and had nothing to do with religion? And we do realize, of course, that Nietzsche was very much star-struck by Darwin? That Nietzsche regarded Darwin’s theory as a source of liberation from God and all notions of “the good”? That he wrote a nasty little book called “Beyond Good and Evil”? That this book can be read by wretched men like Hitler as an invitation to genocide?

The popular notion that Nietzsche opposed Darwin is based on a misunderstanding. Nietzsche did not oppose Darwin’s naturalism; he heartily embraced it. In fact he foresaw that it was the precipitating event in nihilism and a crisis in Western philosophy. What he opposed was Darwin’s notion of the randomness of evolution. In Nietzsche’s retelling of the story, man and his superiority are the product of a will to dominate found in nature itself. And happiness is therefore a matter of killing the Christian God with his self-sacrificing love and reclaiming this diabolical will.

No credible link between the horrors of the 20th century and Darwin’s theory of unguided evolution? Come on boys; join the fun. After all, it just isn’t possible to hide the truth forever. And take heart! Maybe you’ll learn to love being bashed as much as Christians do.

In the USA, the Station for Experimental Evolution merged with the Eugenics Record Office in 1920 to form the Carnegie Institution’s Dept. of Genetics.

Aesahaettr [66], others have mocked your name in silly ways. But perhaps they’ve not read Pullman and so don’t know what it means. I say your name is only wishful thinking on your part.

DLH – I saw the clip and It’s just that Hitler is not saying “Darwin with us” that’s not doing it for me at the moment. Perhaps later.

Richard Weikart
From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany 2004 (paperback edition in 2005) with Palgrave Macmillan in New York.

See sample video of Weikart’s lecture :
Sample clip “From Darwin to Hitler” V056 Weikart on YouTube