Yeah, why not.

Take the reductio ad Hitlerum to the extreme. Would have made it much more convincing...

...to a certain group of christofascists, of course.

lol indeed, though I think that at least if he had focused more time on the connections to the holocaust then he might have actually found out that there were no connections!!

Of course, the sheeple would not be able to go 'oooh Darwin= Hitler, Hitler= bad' if the evidence were presented clearly.

I call BS (and no, it doesn't stand for Ben Stein.) It seems that Stein is attempting to link Darwin's "survival of the fittest" to the Holocaust, which is completely out of context.

The theory of evolutuion did not bring about the Holocaust, a mad German dictator did. The fact that this connection is even being made by the intelligent design movement is absolutely appalling.

To even equate a philosophical point-of-view, which ID is, to legitimate science is bad enough. Talk about grasping at staws.

Originally posted by Mantys
Of course, the sheeple would not be able to go 'oooh Darwin= Hitler, Hitler= bad' if the evidence were presented clearly.

Heh, got to remember that this is the film where the producer (or whoever) said he didn't use the christian evolutionary biologist, Ken Miller, because it would have complicated matters.

I hear it's currently destroying brain cells in your local cinemas. Flopping dreadfully apparently.

Look I am not about to say Darwin is personally responsible for the Holocaust or the Nazis. And the movie "Expelled" does not say that either. I saw it just a week ago it is fresh in my memory. They interviewed a historian and he said something like"Darwin is not responsible for Hitler - but Hitler would not have been Hitler without Darwin" which is an accurate assessment.

Hitler used Darwin's ideas and decided he would just speed up natural selection himself by eliminating the weak and inferior. Thus he was evolving the human race a a rapid pace. It is a completely a Darwinian idea. melatonin has told me - "so what?" Yes he has a valid point it was just a hypothesis after all, not a license to kill, - I agree Hitler was crazy to implement it.

I liked the movie but I disagree he should have spent more time on the holocaust. I think he is letting his Jewish heritage cloud his judgment a bit.

However, there is a very valid point in that when you change the status of man from "made in the image of a divine creator" to the status of an animal you have cheapened human life.