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Post by timmy on May 20, 2016 15:07:09 GMT
Would much violence made to many races not have happened if it was not for Darwin?
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Post by maysamyounis on May 21, 2016 9:56:35 GMT
I do n't get your question for real! But I think Charles Darwin's thinking he didi not believe on god so his thought to writing on the subject of evolution and natural selection caused him to reject the evidence for God in nature and ultimately to renounce the Bible, God, and the Christian faith. His Legacy of Darwin's theory used the widest variety of proof than any other theory to explain life Writings affected many aspects of life today.
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Post by graceyichen on May 22, 2016 0:07:35 GMT
What Darwin provided was an explanation of the evolution of animals and an observation of how species survived and puncooled down successful traits. It may have gave some people who were already discriminative a rationale to persecute other races and start wars, but it certainly did not "make" people more violent. Society inevitably creates hierarchy, and to find an explanation for people who become discriminative in that system I think would come from the desire to survive and remain at the top of the pyramid.And the fastest way to do that is of course to make sure other people don't steal your spot, be a bully. I think this process is natural therefore, with or without Darwin's theory, humans would have committed violence towards each other to secure a position in society anyway.
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Post by ETypeRegymon on May 22, 2016 10:06:40 GMT
I agree with grace in that people would still have a reason to commit violence. In addition, I don't think it would change anything. If he never existed, someone else in the future would come up with the theories Darwin would have made and the wars would've happened all over again. It might even be worse for us if the catalyst happened later because we would more likely be affected by the ongoing wars.
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Post by sunnyp on May 22, 2016 13:42:40 GMT
This is a hard question. I think so, because people had many difference "reasonings" to be racists. Darwin's theory may have supported some of the reasons for discrimination against different races but it didn't create it. Therefore, I think violences made to many races would have happened even if it was not for Darwin.
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Post by melody on May 22, 2016 14:02:46 GMT
What is exactly your question?? I don't understand...TT
uncooluming that your question is this, "If it wasn't for Charles Darwin, would the violent things that happened to many different races not have happened?"
I think Darwinism contradicted many ideas of religion which brought violence to people because it's very hard for someone whose very committed to a religion. This is because basically what Darwinism is saying is that the world is made of science, not god. Therefore, it was obvious that Darwinism caused more violence to some races (uncooluming that their religion is most likely common), but it's still not his fault because it's just one of his belief and theory just like other people believing in religion.
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Post by toomuchchanmin on May 22, 2016 18:22:26 GMT
I think Darwin's theories were an excuse used by the Europeans when they invaded and colonized the world before World War I. After all, no European was like "LET'S GO CONQUER AN INFERIOR NATION" when they first read Darwin's book (hopefully not). The reason why colonization happened was because of the natural human instinct. The European countries got powerful through the industrial revolution and used it to conquer other lands, the same way a tribe in the stone age would have conquered another tribe if they first invented the bronze sword first.
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Post by Jonathan on May 22, 2016 19:21:35 GMT
Even if Darwin didn't look into it, someone would have found an idea similar to it. Therefore, there would be no change in the world. Also, the act of violence has been evolving throughout history. There was a very dramatic example of Hitler. He may have been following the principles of Darwin's idea, but the fact that a man like that would have caused WWII anyways. I believe that violence is what a person chooses to do so and Darwin's idea wouldn't have changed anything.
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Post by timmy on May 23, 2016 0:17:44 GMT
If you guys weren't here on my project day/ don't understand the question, look at the replies of others.
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