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Anti-Religion Extremist Dawkins Advocates Eugenics

Says Nazi regimes genocidal project may not be bad

By Hilary White

LONDON, November 21, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) A leading internationalanti-religion crusader and supporter of Darwinian theory, Dr. Richard Dawkins,

has said that the pseudo-science of eugenics that drove the Nazi regimes

genocidal project may not be bad.

Since the end of the second world war, the name of eugenics, the social

philosophy that the human species or particular races ought to be improved by

selective breeding or other forms of genetic manipulation, is one that conjures

instant images of the Nazi death camps and racial hygiene programs.

In a letter to the editor of Scotlands Sunday Herald, Dawkins argues that the

time has come to lay this spectre to rest. Dawkins writes that though no one

wants to be seen to be in agreement with Hitler on any particular, if you can

breed cattle for milk yield, horses for running speed, and dogs for herding skill,

why on Earth should it be impossible to breed humans for mathematical,

musical or athletic ability?

Dawkins holds the Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of

Science at Oxford University, but is best known as one of the worlds most

outspoken current opponents of religious belief, giving lectures and interviews

and writing articles in which fundamentalist Christianity is among his favourite

targets.

I wonder whether, some 60 years after Hitlers death, we might at least venture

to ask what the moral di fference is between breeding for musical ability and

forcing a child to take music lessons. Or why it is acceptable to train fast

runners and high jumpers but not to breed them, Dawkins wrote Sunday.

Dawkins' campaign against religion has led him to publish a book, The God

Delusion, in September this year and he is one of the instigators of the notion,

popular with journalists, that the Catholic Churchs opposition to artificial

contraception will result in mass starvation.

Dawkins is also a leader of the movement to gain legal human rights for great

apes, arguing that since there is no such thing as a soul, there is no moral

difference between apes and humans.

The atheistic philosophy of utilitarianism, that led in the 1930s to the Nazi

eugenics program, is now a respectable stream of thought in much of the
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contemporary academic world.

Ardent advocates of eugenics and utilitarianism, including Darwinism, can be

found today among Nobel Prize winners and many of the leading lights of

academia who hold extreme atheistic opinions like those of Richard Dawkins.

Such people argue that the genetic improvement of the human species grows

logically from the desire to use genetic manipulation to eliminate diseases.

Dr. Peter Singer is the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Ivy League

Princeton University and is a leading advocate of utilitarian bioethics and a

promoter of infanticide and euthanasia. Common to many utilitarians, Singer is

also an ardent animal rights activist and is often called the father of the

modern animal rights movement.

James Watson, the Nobel Prize winning discoverer of DNA and the first director

of the Human Genome Project, promotes the idea of improving the human

race by "inheritable genetic modification," most often referred to as "germline

genetic engineering" at the embryonic stage. Such genetic re-engineering of

the human race, once the stuff of science fiction, has become a legal reality in

many countries that allow genetic screening in IVF facilities.

Watson, though not as outspokenly anti-religious as Dawkins, has ridiculed the

notion of an overarching value to human beings. Speaking at a conference at

UCLA in 1998, he said, I think i t's complete nonsense ... saying we're sacred

and should not be changedto say we've got a perfect genome and there's

some sanctity? I'd like to know where that idea comes from because it's utter

silliness

If we could make better human beings by knowing how to add genes, why

shouldn't we do it? What's wrong with it? Who is telling us not to [do] it?

Many modern eugenics enthusiasts advocate sterilization, abortion and

infanticide as well as genetic modification of people at the embryonic stage.

Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist, John Sulston, who also worked on the

Human Genome project implicitly advocated the extermination of the disabled

when he said, I don't think one ought to bring a clearly disabled child into the

world.

Professor Robert Edwards, the IVF pioneer who helped bring to birth Louise

Brown, often called the worlds first test-tube baby, outraged disabled rights

groups when he said, Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child which

carries the heavy burden of genetic disease.

Read Dawkins letter:

http://www.sundayherald.com/59116

Read The Inherent Racism of Population Control by LifeSiteNews.com writer

Paul Jalsevac:

http://www.lifesite.net/waronfamily/Population_Control/Inher...

Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:

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http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2006/sep/06091807.html

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