Darwinism and American Society
Social Darwinism in the American society had the notion that the common class had no authority over those who were bare to struggle for existence. Social Darwinism was the idea of the evolution theory and the ordinary assortment to the current social growth. This kind of allotment was used by the American businessmen as a methodical evidence of their dominance. Those who were much prepared to succeed the great effort for the survival was the American businessman. This led to the fact that revenues and policies acted as risk to their existence. Thus the role of the Social American Darwinism was to put biological perceptions of the natural assortment and the survival of the fittest to sociology and political affairs (Hofstadter & Richard, 48).
The government that was led by Hitler relied much on the concept of Darwinism. This led to Hitler making a policy that his administration would develop and establish policies that would protect the superior races. He wanted to prevent the substandard races from connecting with those who moderated them for them to lessen the contagion of the last’s genetic material group. The superior race was established on the group inequality philosophy in their species and this was the main presumption of the Darwin’s hypothesis, endurance for the fittest. This notion led to the last outcome that many of the Jews and other people belonged to the substandard races. Darwinism has the notion that evolution develops by the different survival of the fittest or on the superior races. This needs divergences between species which within a given time becomes satisfactory so that those who have superior traits are more fitting to existence (Weikart &Richard, 112).
The foundation of the Americans eugenics group developed from the American breeders’ association. This association mainly focused on the scientific development of animals and plants. The association also developed a committee on the Eugenics within its organization which was to assess the probability of putting into the rules of animal breeding to humans. Social Darwinism and the eugenics shaped the immigrant experience that was in the States as it put together the information about what was predicted to be the hereditary features as that of the many families in America. This was to help in recognizing those who would be motivated and those who wouldn’t be permitted to leave their children. The notion in eugenics was derived from a notion in the Darwinian evolution. Thus the outcome of this notion projected to unclear the fact that it was a natural destination of the Darwinist beliefs (Winfield &Ann, 124).
The Fundamentalists Christians are against Darwinism as many of them believed in the creation in Genesis and believe that the world was created a thousand years back. Darwin explains the origin of species in which Christians do not believe in. In the years after the species originated, theologians started to connect the Darwin’s theory and the Christian belief. Some Christians argued that the way the theory explains the evolution was a method of God’s creation. Mainly Christians were against the Darwinism mainly on the human species as they confirmed that evolution could create conflict between the Christian beliefs that human beings are created in the God’s image. The Christians argued that if they had to believe in the evolution of species that would mean that they could also believe that God gave life through evolution which was against God’s teaching. The Fundamentalist were much against the American’s social liberalism by protecting the historic Christina teachings. They believed that conversion only happens when those who need it put their salvation in the hands of Jesus alone (Hofstadter & Richard, 67).
Work cited
Hofstadter, Richard. Social Darwinism in American Thought. Boston, Mass: Beacon Press, 1993. Print.
Weikart, Richard. From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary Ethics, Eugenics, and Racism in Germany. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Print.
Winfield, Ann G. Eugenics and Education in America: Institutionalized Racism and the Implications of History, Ideology, and Memory. New York: Lang, 2007. Print.
