Whats Wrong With Social Darwinism?
Creationists on this forum have taken to arguing against the biggest straw man that has ever been erected to mischaracterize evolution. So, instead of wasting my time responding to each of their posts, I will point out the problems with this pseudoscientific social theory. First of all, let’s look at the social context of Darwin’s time. It was the mid 1800s. The industrial revolution was well underway. England was a major colonial power. Capitalism was largely unfettered and everyone had to fend for themselves. The racism & the extreme individualism that is often atrributed to “Darwinism” was actually a condition of the society. If anything, those conditions may have influenced Darwin’s view of natural selection. He did not influence society – it influenced him. Herbert Spencer just took from Darwin what appealed to him in order to justify his own austere view of society. Second of all, fascists and communists adopted some of the same jargon in order to argue for political & economic s
