Introduction

Most people think the theory of evolution was first proposed by
Charles Darwin, and rests on scientific evidence, observations and
experiments. However, the truth is that Darwin was not its originator,
and neither does the theory rest on scientific proof. The theory
consists of an adaptation to nature of the ancient dogma of
materialist philosophy. Although it is not backed up by scientific
discoveries, the theory is blindly supported in the name of
materialist philosophy.

This fanaticism has resulted in all kinds of disasters. Together with
the spread of Darwinism and the materialist philosophy it supports,
the answer to the question "What is a human being?" has changed.
People who used to answer: "Human beings were created by God and have
to live according to the beautiful morality He teaches", have now
begun to think that "Man came into being by chance, and is an animal
who developed by means of the fight for survival." There is a heavy
price to pay for this great deception. Violent ideologies such as
racism, fascism and communism, and many other barbaric world views
based on conflict have all drawn strength from this deception.

This article will examine the disaster Darwinism has visited on the
world and reveal its connection with terrorism, one of the most
important global problems of our time.

The Darwinist Lie: 'Life is conflict'

Darwin set out with one basic premise when developing his theory: "The
development of living things depends on the fight for survival. The
strong win the struggle. The weak are condemned to defeat and
oblivion."

According to Darwin, there is a ruthless struggle for survival and an
eternal conflict in nature. The strong always overcome the weak, and
this enables development to take place. The subtitle he gave to his
book The Origin of Species, "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural
Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for
Life", encapsulates that view.

Furthermore, Darwin proposed that the 'fight for survival' also
applied between human racial groups. According to that fantastical
claim, 'favoured races' were victorious in the struggle. Favoured
races, in Darwin's view, were white Europeans. African or Asian races
had lagged behind in the struggle for survival. Darwin went further,
and suggested that these races would soon lose the "struggle for
survival" entirely, and thus disappear:

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries,
the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and
replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the
anthropomorphous apes… will no doubt be exterminated. The break
between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will
intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, even
than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now
between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.1

The Indian anthropologist Lalita Vidyarthi explains how Darwin's
theory of evolution imposed racism on the social sciences:

His (Darwin's) theory of the survival of the fittest was warmly
welcomed by the social scientists of the day, and they believed
mankind had achieved various levels of evolution culminating in the
white man's civilization. By the second half of the nineteenth century
racism was accepted as fact by the vast majority of Western scientists.
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Darwin's Source of Inspiration: Malthus's Theory of Ruthlessness
Darwin's source of inspiration on this subject was the British
economist Thomas Malthus's book An Essay on the Principle of
Population. Left to their own devices, Malthus calculated that the
human population increased rapidly. In his view, the main influences
that kept populations under control were disasters such as war, famine
and disease. In short, according to this brutal claim, some people had
to die for others to live. Existence came to mean "permanent war."

In the 19th century, Malthus's ideas were widely accepted. European
upper class intellectuals in particular supported his cruel ideas. In
the article "The Scientific Background of the Nazi 'Race Purification'
Programme", the importance 19th century Europe attached to Malthus's
views on population is described in this way:

In the opening half of the nineteenth century, throughout Europe,
members of the ruling classes gathered to discuss the newly discovered
"Population problem" and to devise ways of implementing the Malthusian
mandate, to increase the mortality rate of the poor: "Instead of
recommending cleanliness to the poor, we should encourage contrary
habits. In our towns we should make the streets narrower, crowd more
people into the houses, and court the return of the plague. In the
country we should build our villages near stagnant pools, and
particularly encourage settlements in all marshy and unwholesome
situations," and so forth and so on.3

As a result of this cruel policy, the weak, and those who lost the
struggle for survival would be eliminated, and as a result the rapid
rise in population would be balanced out. This so-called "oppression
of the poor" policy was actually carried out in 19th century Britain.
An industrial order was set up in which children of eight and nine
were made to work sixteen hours a day in the coal mines and thousands
died from the terrible conditions. The "struggle for survival"
demanded by Malthus's theory led to millions of Britons leading lives
full of suffering.

Influenced by these ideas, Darwin applied this concept of conflict to
all of nature, and proposed that the strong and the fittest emerged
victorious from this war of existence. Moreover, he claimed that the
so-called struggle for survival was a justified and unchangeable law
of nature. On the other hand, he invited people to abandon their
religious beliefs by denying the Creation, and thus undermined at all
ethical values that might prove to be obstacles to the ruthlessness of
the "struggle for survival."

Humanity has paid a heavy price in the 20th century for the
dissemination of these callous views which lead people to acts of
ruthlessness and cruelty.

What 'The Law of the Jungle' Led to: Fascism

As Darwinism fed racism in the 19th century, it formed the basis of an
ideology that would develop and drown the world in blood in the 20th
century: Nazism.
A strong Darwinist influence can be seen in Nazi ideologues. When one
examines this theory, which was given shape by Adolf Hitler and Alfred
Rosenberg, one comes across such concepts as "natural selection",
"selective mating", and "the struggle for survival between the races",
which are repeated dozens of time in the works of Darwin. When calling
his book Mein Kampf (My Struggle), Hitler was inspired by the
Darwinist struggle for survival and the principle that victory went to
the fittest. He particularly talks about the struggle between the
races:

History would culminate in a new millennial empire of unparalleled
splendour, based on a new racial hierarchy ordained by nature herself.
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In the 1933 Nuremberg party rally, Hitler proclaimed that "a higher
race subjects to itself a lower race… a right which we see in nature
and which can be regarded as the sole conceivable right".

That the Nazis were influenced by Darwinism is a fact that almost all
historians who are expert in the matter accept. The historian Hickman
describes Darwinism's influence on Hitler as follows:

(Hitler) was a firm believer and preacher of evolution. Whatever
the deeper, profound, complexities of his psychosis, it is certain
that [the concept of struggle was important because]… his book, Mein
Kampf, clearly set forth a number of evolutionary ideas, particularly
those emphasizing struggle, survival of the fittest and the
extermination of the weak to produce a better society.5

Hitler, who emerged with these views, dragged the world to violence
that had never before been seen. Many ethnic and political groups, and
especially the Jews, were exposed to terrible cruelty and slaughter in
the Nazi concentration camps. World War II, which began with the Nazi
invasion, cost 55 million lives. What lay behind the greatest tragedy
in world history was Darwinism's concept of the "struggle for
survival."

The Bloody Alliance: Darwinism and Communism

While fascists are found on the right wing of Social Darwinism, the
left wing is occupied by communists. Communists have always been among
the fiercest defenders of Darwin's theory.

This relationship between Darwinism and communism goes right back to
the founders of both these "isms". Marx and Engels, the founders of
communism, read Darwin's The Origin of Species as soon as it came out,
and were amazed at its 'dialectical materialist' attitude. The
correspondence between Marx and Engels showed that they saw Darwin's
theory as "containing the basis in natural history for communism". In
his book The Dialectics of Nature, which he wrote under the influence
of Darwin, Engels was full of praise for Darwin, and tried to make his
own contribution to the theory in the chapter "The Part Played by
Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man".

Russian communists who followed in the footsteps of Marx and Engels,
such as Plekhanov, Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin, all agreed with Darwin's
theory of evolution. Plekhanov, who is seen as the founder of Russian
communism, regarded marxism as "Darwinism in its application to social
science".6

Trotsky said, "Darwin's discovery is the highest triumph of the
dialectic in the whole field of organic matter." 7

'Darwinist education' had a major role in the formation of communist
cadres. For instance, historians note the fact that Stalin was
religious in his youth, but became an atheist primarily because of
Darwin's books.8

Mao, who established communist rule in China and killed millions of
people, openly stated that "Chinese socialism is founded upon Darwin
and the theory of evolution." 9

The Harvard University historian James Reeve Pusey goes into great
detail regarding Darwinism's effect on Mao and Chinese communism in
his research book China and Charles Darwin.10

In short, there is an unbreakable link between the theory of evolution
and communism. The theory claims that living things are the product of
chance, and provides a so-called scientific support for atheism.
Communism, an atheist ideology, is for that reason firmly tied to
Darwinism. Moreover, the theory of evolution proposes that development
in nature is possible thanks to conflict (in other words "the struggle
for survival") and supports the concept of "dialectics" which is
fundamental to communism.

If we think of the communist concept of "dialectical conflict", which
killed some 120 million people during the 20th century, as a "killing
machine" then we can better understand the dimensions of the disaster
that Darwinism visited on the planet.