Comments on "Evolution and Morality"

[Faizal_Ali]

@Tim

The Holocaust would appear to be an act of Artificial Selection, not Natural Selection (and therefore not evolution). Artificial Selection can select for any arbitrary trait, even ones that reduce fitness – as is quite frequently seen in dog breeding. Therefore the fact that they were subjected to the Holocaust cannot be taken as evidence that the Jewish people were weaker.

A related point: “Artificial selection” is nothing more that part of selective breeding that has been practiced by humans as part of horticulture and animal husbandry since pre-history. So the Nazi’s would have been able to use it as a justification for their atrocities even if evolution had not been discovered.