Don, I think if you Google hitler and social darwinism together, you'll see that there is a tie - along with the "eugenics" movement of the 1920s and 1930s. There were many in North America and Europe who shared Hitler's racist thinking - and much of it is tied to a perversion of Darwin's thought called "Social Darwinism."

I went to the Easter Vigil Mass this Saturday evening, and the first reading was the creation story from Genesis. It was beautiful, but the only part of it that I believed literally was, "And God saw that it was good."

-Joe-