Darwin's deadly delusions By Ellis Washington
Today's column continues my review of Dr. Benjamin Wiker's venerable opus, "10 Books that Screwed up he World and 5 others that didn't Help" (Regnery, 2008). My critique will be of the legendary English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-82) and his famous treatise on the origins of mankind, "The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex" (1871).
As a prologue to this book review, I propose the question: Can an idea, a theory, even a delusion kill? A cursory review just of 20th century dictators who overtly or covertly embraced and applied Darwin's ideas about evolution, survival of the fittest and natural selection to humanity, resulting in tens of millions of corpses they left in their wake, lamentably beckons a resounding, Yes!
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