Comments on "Evolution and Morality"

[Roy (34-year veteran)]

@Faizal_Ali

@Tim

The Holocaust would appear to be an act of Artificial Selection, not Natural Selection (and therefore not evolution).

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.

Another related point - the Nazis weren’t selecting who would breed and who wouldn’t, they were selecting what to exterminate. Their aim wasn’t artificial or natural selection, it was disinfection.