http://www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/index.php?command=view&id=2157&program=CSC-News&callingPage=discoMainPage, announcing the publication of the book From Darwin To Hitler by Richard Weikart, a Fellow with the Center for Science and Culture of the Discovery Institute.

According to the DI press release, “Weikart explains the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality. He demonstrates that many leading Darwinian biologists and social thinkers in Germany believed that Darwinism overturned traditional Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment ethics, especially those pertaining to the sacredness of human life. Many of these thinkers supported moral relativism, yet simultaneously exalted evolutionary “fitness” (especially in terms of intelligence and health) as the highest arbiter of morality. Weikart concludes that Darwinism played a key role not only in the rise of eugenics, but also in euthanasia, infanticide, abortion, and racial extermination, all ultimately embraced by the Nazis.”