The Nazis did that thing with evolution theory that lots of other ignorant people do - they applied it, improperly, to fields of human discourse way beyond what Darwin applied it to. Natural selection operates within species, not between species. It doesn't operate in the market place or commerce for example, "survival of the fittest companies in this dog-eat-dog world." Acceptance of this woolly thinking helped to allow the Nazis to make their obscene justification for the Holocaust. It also allows ignorant people like Pete, who admits to not even have read Darwin, to make vile assertions such as "as far as i can see it has been a green light for untold atrocities.the jews among others were victims of the evolution embracing nazi." It wasn't evolution the Nazis embraced, not by a long chalk, but a deliberate perversion of it. It is also a lie that eugenics is the "bastard son of evolution." That is a quite unjustified slur on the theory. It implies that Darwinism is capable of spawning that horrid perversion. It is inherently not capable of that. It is only possible in the minds of people who want to pervert the theory and turn it on its head.