Talk:Darwin's work refers to "preservation of favoured races" (Talk.Origins)
The AiG article states Neither racism—nor the idea of evolution—started with Darwin. Both are manifestations of basing one’s thinking on a non-biblical foundation. However, Darwin’s writings greatly fuelled racism, providing a ‘scientific’ justification for it. His book’s subtitle referred to the ‘preservation of favoured races’. PrometheusX303 09:21, 11 January 2006 (GMT)
Re your statement "Unless the author expands on this point [that Origin of Species is not about humans] and offers some convincing evidence to support it, there is no reason to believe it's anything more than his own opinion."
Isn't it normally up to the side that makes an accusation to provide evidence of it, rather than first assuming an accusation is true unless disproved?
Would it be impertinent to suggest that you read the book? It's difficult to prove a negative, but if the TO claim is wrong, it should be easy for you to show it by coming up with an example referring to human races.
I did a search for "race" through the online version of Origin of Species. The references I found were to horses, sheep, dogs and cabbages. Although I have not read it all, I understand from a number of different sources that the book does indeed not discuss humans. Does it? --Drlindberg 16:58, 20 January 2007 (EST)
Just for the record, I have now finished reading "Origin of Species," and there is no discussion of human evolution or human races. "The Descent of Man" does have a chapter on races, but he is mostly discussing other people's ideas, so it would be very easy to take quotations from it out of context and misrepresent them as Darwin's views. --Drlindberg 08:37, 29 March 2008 (PDT)
