Charles Darwin: Still Dead.

The astounding silliness accompanying the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin reaches its fever pitch today. Among the humorous aspects of this celebration is that they are observing the birth of a man who was obsessed with the ‘value’ to be derived from mass death. There’s simply no escaping the fact that Darwinism boils down to “Survival belongs to the brutal,” since ‘fitness’ for Darwinism is simply that the more powerful, brutal and vicious kill and/or eat the less powerful, brutal and vicious.
Presumably, there will be little attention given today to Darwinism as one of the key intellectual precursors of the death camps and most of the genocides which have taken place since his ideology took root. The unparalleled slaughter of the past 150 years (compared to which all previous inquisitions, etc. were numerically trifling affairs) needed Darwinism as a justification: when men are taught that they are answerable to no “higher authority,” and when it is taught that is actually good that those who cannot defend themselves are eliminated by those strong enough to do so… what did people think was going to happen? “Might makes right” is the necessary implication of the denial that there is a transcendent Source of morality.
All of the protestations that usually come at this point, seeking to absolve Darwin of responsibility for what the butchers did in his name cannot evade the fact that their actions are intellectually derived from his argument. In fact, Darwinism hardly needed any time at all before such malignant plants were growing in the soil of this theory. In other words, the butchery didn’t arise hundreds of years later, but within living memory of the date of his death.
Darwin is still dead, and his deadly delusion will probably continue to be used as a justification for barbarism in the name of various ideologies for many years to come.