Whilst you can read Darwin’s work I think that for anybody who wants to understand what evolution by natural selection is, why it is considered a fact and the evidence that supports it look no further that Dawkins new book. It really is a clear and concise book that answers all the questions that are commonly asked from the creationists side and dispels all the myths and common misunderstandings about Darwin’s theory.

p.s. You might have to ask for it at the bookstore, I did as it wasn’t in the new release section but buried in the social sciences???? section.

Like Nigel said, Hitler wasn’t “inspired” by Darwin. A small part of his “Aryan Race” reasoning might have been a corruption of Darwin’s ideas, but the bulk of Hitler’s ideas came from Germany being the world’s doormat after WWI and from millennia old antisemitism.

In fact, if Kirk and Company wanted to try to sway Jews over to their side by playing the Hitler card, they’ll fail. (At least with any Jew who knows a modicum of antisemitism history.) Darwin’s voyage began in 1831, but the Russian Pogroms began in 1821 and similar antisemitic violence took place before that. For example, the Spanish Inquisition’s expulsion of the Jews in 1492. That was *WAY* before Darwin. Heck, at that point, Christopher Columbus hadn’t even begun his voyage.

In short, Hitler’s ideas of a “master race” and selection of the Jews as scapegoats for all of Germany’s problems were old ideas. Any “Darwinian” element in them was Hitler abusing the theory to suit his own purposes just like he abused religion as pointed out by Daniel J. Andrews in post #30.

Hitler was probably inspired by Darwin’s work. But hey so what? It still doesn’t mean Evolution is wrong. Funny to see Christians justifying their cognitive dissonance with Hitler.

Hitler wasn’t inspired by Darwin. He used evolution in the same way he used religion – as a tool to manipulate people and justify his policies. Since Hitler was a lowly corporal during WWI, it is as likely as anything else that he was “inspired” by the comprehensive humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles.