Glenn Beck blames the Holocaust on Charles Darwin

Did you actually think Beck would look into the subject more that a topical glance? He just picked up the most feared word, being Darwin, and splicing it with a racial rant.

I guess this topic is what they are studyingat Beck University this week...I'd love to audit the course and see what I've missed from my "liberal" college education. By the way, isn't Darwinism scientific theory? Something the Becksters whole heartedly denounce.

Glenn Beck admits to spewing non sense for ratings and money. Because that's all TV is, a business. It's our responsibility not to lend Glenn Beck any credibility.

Everybody loves a scapegoat, and Beck has a dumpster full of them. It's intellectually lazy and ethically disingenuous to blame (progressives, the Civil Rights Acts, FDR, gays, atheists, immigrants, the United Nations, .... Darwin!), but that continues to be Beck's m.o.

But to lay blame for "modern racism," eugenics, and the Holocaust at Darwin's feet is not only wrong, it's phenomenally lazy and an act of profound cowardice from a self-styled "thinker" like Glenn Beck.

This is what he gets paid to say? Unbelievable. Maybe I'm naive or simply stupid but wasn't Hitler the father of the Holocaust?

According to Beck and his cohorts, a direct line can be drawn between Darwin, eugenics, and Hitler: "Charles Darwin is the father of the Holocaust."

Where's the proof that Hitler read is writings?

Cause there weren't no bigots before Darwin...........

Using his logic we could blame 911 on some jews

On one of my seeds I seriously had one of his worshippers say that Beck should be a mandatory class in our high schools.

So, who wants to draw straws to remind Beck that Darwin was DEEPLY religous, and talked with his wife to decide if he would even publish his work

This is old news. This isn't the first time the religious right has tried to associate Darwin with Nazi Genocide. Eugenics a perverted in fake misinterpretation of Evolution did influenced the Nazi but so did many of the darker elements of Religion. Using the usually sloppy logic of Mr Beck, you could also claim Christianity lead to the holocaust.

Do conservative really think this man furthers their political agenda. He is considered a fool by most. More the Howard Stern of politics than the voice of a political movement. He only speaks to his already converted choir, the rest listen with amusement. He is good for a laugh. When I think conservative I think Glen and that isn't a positive association. If conservative ever want respect they need to ditch the three stooges, Glen, Rush and Sarah.

And Galileo is the father of the space shuttle disaster.

This guy is a nutjob.

His point was that Darwin planted the seed that became the eugenics movement. Which is a pretty logical extension of the idea of survival of the fittest. One of the first things that resulted from Darwin was selective scientific breeding of animals. That's why we have recognized dog breeds, etc (large # of them) and why they have had their looks standardized. Of course the result is increased genetic problems as the gene pool was narrowed and in a lot of cases the loss of the abilities that made them useful. The Irish Setter comes to mind. It used to be a smart good hunting dog. With rare exceptions that's not the kind of dog you'd want today for hunting.

The eugenics groups took the ideas found in animal husbandry and applied it to humans. They wanted to get rid of the defectives. They also wanted to get rid of inferior beings (lots of them felt Blacks were inferior and needed to be eliminated. Sanger was one of those.) The eugenics movement here and in the UK were really big and they were a good part of the source of the idea of a "master race" that Hitler tried to create in his demented and horrible manner.

How about this nice PBS article: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/darwin/nameof/ Where it says:

"The specter of eugenics hovers over virtually all contemporary developments in human genetics. Eugenics was rooted in the social Darwinism of the late 19th century, a period in which notions of fitness, competition, and biological rationalizations of inequality were popular. At the time, a growing number of theorists introduced Darwinian analogies of "survival of the fittest" into social argument. Many social Darwinists insisted that biology was destiny, at least for the unfit, and that a broad spectrum of socially deleterious traits, ranging from "pauperism" to mental illness, resulted from heredity.

The word "eugenics" was coined in 1883 by the English scientist Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin, to promote the ideal of perfecting the human race by, as he put it, getting rid of its "undesirables" while multiplying its "desirables" -- that is, by encouraging the procreation of the social Darwinian fit and discouraging that of the unfit. In Galton's day, the science of genetics was not yet understood. Nevertheless, Darwin's theory of evolution taught that species did change as a result of natural selection, and it was well known that by artificial selection a farmer could obtain permanent breeds of plants and animals strong in particular characteristics. Galton wondered, "Could not the race of men be similarly improved?" ..." There are a lot more pages of info at the site.

Or how about the ever popular Wikipeidia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin Read the sections on Eugenics and Social Darwinism.

Basically Beck is right. Charles Darwin did plant the seed that the progressives turned into eugenics and Social Darwinism.

Beck, I always show up at his dismantling, he isn't coherent but he is spiritedly, totally, insane.

What Beck says is like a pile of dung from a wounded animal, easily tracked, easily feasted on when it dies and becomes a carcase.