Darwin's Plantation: Evolution's Racist Roots

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 205 pages
• Published by: Master Books November 29, 2007
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0890514976
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0890514979
• Book Dimensions: 8.8 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Weighs: 8.8 ounces

Product Description
Many people do not realize just how intimately connected the theory of evolution and the worst racist ideology in history are. Darwin-s Plantation: Evolution-s Racist Roots gives a thorough history of the effect of evolution on the history of the United States, including Slavery and the civil rights movement, and then goes beyond to the global harvest of death and tragedy that stems from Darwin-s controversial theories.

- Uncover the the origin of the word "race"& the tragic legacy of Darwin-s theory

- Reveals the disturbing connection between evolutionary thought & the most ruthless, & bloody, dictators in history

- Join an eye-opening discussion on racism & its roots in the hearts & minds of millions

- Step beyond the legal precedents to find the true solution in the Bible - one that resolves this issue in the hearts of mankind

Join Answers in Genesis president Ken Ham and president of Crossroads Bible College Dr. Charles Ware as they examine the racist historical --This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

About The Author
Dr Charles Ware is president of Crossroads Bible College in Indianapolis, and the author of several books. He is a brilliant and passionate speaker. He lives in Indiana. Ken Ham is founder and director of Answers in Genesis, the world's largest creation ministry. The ministry's new Creation Museum will open in 2007. Ken lectures around the world and is the author of many books. He and his wife, Mally, make their home in Kentucky.

Reader Reviews
A short passage from "The Voyage of the Beagle" will suffice to illuminate Darwin's stance on slavery and racism, at a time when racism was pretty much a given in the mind of most westerners and slavery was widely practiced and condoned by christians: "On the 19th of August we finally left the shores of Brazil. I thank God, I shall never again visit a slave country. To this day, if I hear a distant scream, it recalls with painful vividness my feelings, when passing a house near Pernambuco, I heard the most pitiable moans, and could not but suspect that some poor slave was being tortured, yet knew that I was as powerless as a child even to remonstrate. I suspected that these moans were from a tortured slave, for I was told that this was the case in another instance. Near Rio de Janeiro I lived opposite to an old lady, who kept screws to crush the fingers of her female slaves. I have staid in a house where a young household mulatto, daily and hourly, was reviled, beaten, and persecuted enough to break the spirit of the lowest animal. I have seen a little boy, six or seven years old, struck thrice with a horsewhip (before I could interfere) on his naked head, for having handed me a glass of water not quite clean; I saw his father tremble at a mere glance from his master's eye. These latter cruelties were witnessed by me in a Spanish colony, in which it has always been said, that slaves are better treated than by the Portuguese, English, or other European nations. I have seen at Rio de Janeiro a powerful negro afraid to ward off a blow directed, as he thought, at his face. I was present when a kind-hearted man was on the point of separating for ever the men, women and little children of a large number of families who had long lived together. I will not even allude to the many heart-sickening atrocities which I authentically heard of; - nor would I have mentioned the above revolting details, had I not met with several people, so blinded by the constitutional gaiety of the negro, as to speak of slavery as a tolerable evil. Such people have generally visited the houses of the upper classes, where the domestic slaves are usually well treated; and they have not, like myself, lived amongst the lower classes. Such enquirers will ask slaves about their condition; they forget that the slave must indeed be dull, who does not calculate on the chance of his answer reaching his master's ears. It is argued that self-interest will prevent excessive cruelty; as if self-interest protected our domestic animals, which are far less likely than degraded slaves, to stir up the rage of their savage masters. It is an argument long since protested against with noble feelings, and strikingly exemplified, by the ever illustrious Humboldt. It is often attempted to palliate slavery by comparing the state of slaves with our poorer countrymen: if the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin; but how this bears on slavery, I cannot see; as well might the use of the thumbscrew be defended in one land, by showing that men in another land suffer from some dreadful disease. Those who look tenderly at the slave-owner and with cold heart at the slave, never seem to put themselves into the position of the latter; - what a cheerless prospect, with not even a hope of change! Picture to yourself the chance, ever hanging over you, of your wife and your little children - those objects which nature urges even the slave to call his own - being torn from you and sold like beast to the first bidder! And these deeds are done and palliated by men, who profess to love their neighbors as themselves, who believe in God, and pray that his Will be done on earth! It makes one's blood boil, yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty, have been and are so guilty: but it is consolation to reflect, that we at least have made a greater sacrifice, than ever made by any nation, to expiate our sin." Honestly, what did you expect from noted liar Ken Ham, if not lies, more lies, slander, libel and historical revisionism?