Friday, November 20, 2020

Creation Moment 11/21/2020 - Darwin vs. Paul on South American Indians

 And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation; Acts 17:26

"In a sequel to the better-known On the Origin of Species, Darwin’s The Descent of Man argued that humans, having descended from
apelike creatures, were continuing to evolve and produce various races. 
 
Darwin posited that some races were more developed than others. Throughout Descent, Darwin labeled different people groups other than his European race as “low” and “degraded,” including Africans. Darwin argued that the “highest races and the lowest savages” clearly differed in their “moral disposition” (Darwin, 445).

 These “savages,” he further claimed, possessed “insufficient” powers of reasoning (Darwin, 489). At the end of Descent, Darwin declared he would prefer to be descended from a “little monkey” or an “old baboon” as opposed to an Indian “savage” from South America (Darwin, 919)."
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