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Stephen Jay Gould was a Harvard paleontologist and evolutionist and even he, as an evolutionist, recognized Darwinism as a source of racist ideas: "Biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1859, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory." By Stephen Jay Gould, Ontogeny and Phylogeny (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1977), p. 127.

University-level historians have recognized Darwin's problematic racist views for quite a while now: Richard Weikart, History professor at CSU said: "Today's Darwinists are not Nazis and not all Darwinists agree with Dawkins, Wilson, Ruse, Singer, or Watson. However, some of the ideas being promoted today by prominent Darwinists in the name of Darwinism have an eerily similar ring to the ideologies that eroded respect for human life in the pre-Nazi era." Darwin and the Nazis American Spectator April 16 2008

Darwin wrote in his book, The Descent of Man: "At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized 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 civilized 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 (Aborigine) and the gorilla." Comment: Despite his stand against slavery, Darwin's own words are full of contempt for "savage" people: That is, those of African or Aboriginal or other non-Caucasian ethnicities. On the other hand, the Bible gives all humans from all ethnicities equal value in His eyes: Genesis 1 In the Image of God did He make man. Male and female He made them.

Because Darwin and evolutionary theory is taught in public schools, this can be a source of racism. Darwin believed and wrote about how Africans and Australian Aborigines and those with dark skin were closer, biologically, to baboons/apes than those with lighter skin color. The inference is that the closer you are to apes, the less intelligent you are. This assumption was just based on skin color, not character, not your accomplishments, not who you are as a person, etc. but just on skin color alone. IMHO, this qualifies as a source of racism in our schools, starting with the indoctrination of our children.

The OT is full of examples when God told someone to pick up a weapon to kill: 1) self defense 2) to be an instrument of judgment against a rebellious nation such as Canaanite nations. None of these killings were for selfish reasons but for righteous reasons. If, for example, we allow a criminal to kill a child because we didn't want to stop them, that is cowardice.