The original question was:
Can you supply me with references links to Darwin being racist and his comments about aboriginals being most primitives of all humans?
Answer by Diane Eager
Darwin regularly referred to Australian aborigines as savages, in contrast to Caucasians who are referred to as civilised. He considered the Fuegians (South American) as the least civilised and aborigines to be a little higher. In his Beagle diary, January 1836, p519, Darwin describes meeting a group of aborigines on his way to Bathurst NSW.
“In their own arts they are admirable: a cap being fixed at thirty yards distance, they transfixed it with a spear, delivered by the throwing stick, with the rapidity of an arrow from the bow of a practised archer. In tracking animals or men they show most wonderful sagacity; and I heard of several of their remarks which manifested considerable acuteness. They will not, however, cultivate the ground, or build houses and remain stationary, or even take the trouble of tending a flock of sheep when given to them. On the whole they appear to me to stand some few degrees higher in the scale of civilization than the Fuegians.”
Full text of Voyage of the Beagle can be found here
In The Descent of Man Darwin places aborigines between Caucasians and apes when trying to explain the gaps in the fossil record.
From The Descent of Man, 1st Edition, Chapter 6 pp200-201:
“The great break in the organic chain between man and his nearest allies, which cannot be bridged over by any extinctor living species, has often been advanced as a grave objection to the belief that man is descended from some lower form; but this objection will not appear of much weight to those who, convinced by general reasons, believe in the general principle of evolution. … But all these breaks depend merely on the number of related forms which have become extinct.
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace throughout the world the savage races. At the same time the anthropomorphous apes, as Professor Schaaffhausen has remarked, will no doubt be exterminated. The break will then be rendered wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilised state, as we may hope, than the Caucasian, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as at present between the negro or Australian and the gorilla.”
The entire text of Descent of Man is available here.
ALSO read the Creation Research article The Descent of a Man. PDF here.
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