Adolf Hitler

^{Richard Weikart
March 22, 2022}

Eric Metaxas and Richard Weikart Spotlight Darwinian Racism

_{Richard Weikart
March 22, 2022}

Today’s ID the Future brings listeners a lively conversation between radio host and bestselling author Eric Metaxas and historian Richard Weikart about Weikart’s new book, Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism. Read More ›

^{Richard Weikart
February 21, 2022}

Darwinian Racism Webinar, Pt. 2

_{Richard Weikart
February 21, 2022}

Today’s ID the Future features the second half of a recent webinar spotlighting historian Richard Weikart and his new book, Darwinian Racism: How Darwinism Influenced Hitler, Nazism, and White Nationalism. Here Weikart fields questions from the webinar audience. Read More ›

^{Richard Weikart
February 1, 2022
Intelligent Design}

Darwinian Racism

_{Richard Weikart
February 1, 2022
Intelligent Design}

To hear some tell it, Adolf Hitler was a Christian creationist who rejected Darwinian evolution. Award-winning historian Richard Weikart shows otherwise. According to Weikart, Darwinian evolution crucially influenced Hitler and the Nazis, and the Nazis zealously propagated evolutionary theory during the Third Reich. Inspired by arguments from both Darwin and early Darwinists, the Nazis viewed the “Nordic race” as superior Read More ›

^{Richard Weikart
August 13, 2014
Intelligent Design}

The Biology of the Second Reich

_{Richard Weikart
August 13, 2014
Intelligent Design}

This award-winning 14-minute documentary tells the little-known story of the influence of Social Darwinism on German militarism leading up to World War 1, including an exploration of the German military’s genocidal policies in Southwest Africa (modern Namibia). The video features the work of California State University historian Richard Weikart, author of the book From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, Read More ›

^{July 14, 2014}

Biology of the Second Reich Trailer

_{July 14, 2014}

Trailer for the upcoming documentary The Biology of the Second Reich featuring historian Richard Weikart. Learn more at www.darwintohitler.com

Hitler in model car — From a model shop in London.

^{Richard Weikart
January 8, 2014
Intelligent Design}

Whether Hitler was a Darwinian

_{Richard Weikart
January 8, 2014
Intelligent Design}

In his fifty-page essay, "Was Hitler a Darwinian?" published by the University of Chicago Press, aims primarily at refuting my works. He also snipes at David Berlinski, Stephen Jay Gould, Larry Arnhart, even Peter Bowler, along with unspecified "members of the Intelligent Design crowd." Read More ›

Silhouettes and shadows of people on the street. Crowd walking down on sidewalk, concept of strangers, crime, society, epidemic, population

^{David Klinghoffer
July 2, 2010
Intelligent Design}

The Dark Side of Darwinism

_{David Klinghoffer
July 2, 2010
Intelligent Design}

Between 1934 and 1939, in the interests of evolutionary hygiene, the eugenic program in Nazi Germany forcibly sterilized about 400,000 people. The victims were men and women suffering from hereditary and mental illnesses along with the deaf, the blind, alcoholics and others judged unfit to reproduce. At the time, another government was also busy sterilizing citizens it deemed racially unhygienic. Measured for eugenic enthusiasm, this other state entity ran second to Germany worldwide. And what state was that? Read More ›

Many assorted old books lays in the stacks as background front view close up

^{Logan Paul Gage
August 25, 2008
Intelligent Design}

A Good Book About Bad Books

_{Logan Paul Gage
August 25, 2008
Intelligent Design}

10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn’t HelpBy Benjamin WikerRegnery, 260 pages, $27.95 If ever there were a book designed specifically for the enjoyment of InsideCatholic readers, surely it is Benjamin Wiker’s new 10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others that Didn’t Help. Wiker should be renowned (if he is not already) Read More ›

^{Benjamin Wiker
May 13, 2008
Intelligent Design}

Darwin Nietzsche, and Hitler: Evolution of the Übermensch

_{Benjamin Wiker
May 13, 2008
Intelligent Design}

Judging by the number of posts, my recent column “Darwin and Hitler … in their Own Words” set the fur a-flying. Many folks just don’t like it when you trace a revered scientific icon to an icon of evil. Small wonder. Too bad it’s true. Not to rub too much salt in the wound, but Darwinism is responsible for a Read More ›

^{Benjamin Wiker
May 5, 2008
Intelligent Design}

Darwin and Hitler: In Their Own Words

_{Benjamin Wiker
May 5, 2008
Intelligent Design}

As David Berlinski recently noted, “the thesis that there is a connection between Darwin and Hitler is widely considered a profanation.” But striking an indignant pose — feathers in full ruffle — is not an answer to such a serious charge, especially when the words of both Darwin and Hitler speak otherwise. Those defending Darwin cannot have read his Descent of Read More ›