It's not clear to you because you deliberately ignore the wider context of the creation vs evolution controversy. I'm pretty sure you have no idea of how widespread social darwinism was. According to Ute Deichmann's "Biologists under Hitler", biologists in Germany had the biggest percentage of partymembership of the Nazi party of any professional group of which it was measured. Research in the USA shows that atheists are overrepresented in the discipline of biology by more then 10 percent or something, compared to other disciplines.
That's a nice attempt at misdirection and obfuscation.
Actually, Hitlers own words and those of the key people in his government show thatis was not social Darwinism that drove his actions but rather Christian beliefs. In all of his genocidal behaviour, the hatred of Jews, he believed that he was doing GODs work. Even his sterilization efforts to keep
unfitts from reproducing were justified in Christian, religious terms and not through social darwinism.
The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life.... The National Government regard the two Christian Confessions as the weightiest factors for the maintenance of our nationality. They will respect the agreements concluded between them and the federal States. Their rights are not to be infringed.... It will be the Government's care to maintain honest co-operation between Church and State; the struggle against materialistic views and for a real national community is just as much in the interest of the German nation as in that of the welfare of our Christian faith. The Government of the Reich, who regard Christianity as the unshakable foundation of the morals and moral code of the nation, attach the greatest value to friendly relations with the Holy See and are endeavouring to develop them.
-Adolf Hitler, in his speech to the Reichstag on 23 March 1933
It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally destroyed healthy life than to rebel against those who have no other wish than to avoid disease. Moreover, a policy of laissez faire in this sphere is not only cruelty to the individual guiltless victims but also to the nation as a whole.... If the Churches were to declare themselves ready to take over the treatment and care of those suffering from hereditary diseases, we should be quite ready to refrain from sterilizing them.
-Adolf Hitler, in his speech on 30 Jan. 1934
This is our answer: "My friend, you are wrong. It is true that we are subject to a higher power. We humans may never interfere with the great laws of the Creator. But you are wrong. See the laws the Creator has established for his world and your life. The great law is that life must be able to preserve itself, and that if it cannot, it will collapse. It is the hard, brutal law of the struggle for existence and of selection and extinction. It was the law we saw day by day, hour by hour, under all the clouds of heaven and all the stars of the sky, in which life seemed to find a senseless death, whether plant or animal or person, whether in distant Africa or near us.
That which cannot meet the challenges of life dies, no matter how much pain it causes,
and even if your small understanding or mind cannot comprehend it, these are the great laws of life and of the world that God himself gave us. These are laws, my German friend, that in our crazy fantasies we broke in the past." Dr. Walter Grou October 1934
As you can see, any reference to Natural Selection are not based on Darwin, but on the Christian GOD.
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