In the rebuttal its stated that all of the philosophers who incorporated Darwin's ideas have created or encouraged negative, ignoble, and destructive ideas or actions. For example Karl Marx-inspired communism, Herbert Spencer's "social Darwinism", and Friedrich Nierzsche's philosophy which laid the foundation for the Nazi movement in Germany. ...
Charles Darwin attempted to answer the question of how we came to be as we are today. Although Darwin was educated as a minister, he made his attempt by looking at the facts through the process of observation. ... Darwin was talking about evolution. ... (Robinson, Evolution, 1995) One might inquire why Darwin never used the word evolution to describe his theory. ... (Gould, History, 2000) Stephan Gould stated, "Darwin would not use a word that meant progress, especially when he was trying very hard to separate the mechanism from the common social belief, the psychological hope, the desir...
Every society goes through periods of change every so often. As various forces are at work among the people and conditions are altered, tensions mount and attitudes change. In the United States, the 1920's were just such a time of hesitation between new beliefs and traditional values. Between the dr...
