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was glad to have received an order to transport all half-castes away from their tribe to the mission. He said it was the duty of the State to give these children (who, by evolutionary reasoning, were going to be intellectually superior) a chance to lead a better life than their mothers. He wrote: I would not hesitate for one moment to separate a half-caste from an Aboriginal mother, no matter how frantic her momentary grief. Such separation policies continued until the 1960s. The demand has not entirely abated. Aboriginal bones have still been sought by major institutions in quite modern times.
A similar horror reappeared in the 1930s, when the blatantly evolutionary doctrines of Nazism allowed the consciences of hundreds of doctors, scientists, psychiatrists and other officials to be seared as they set up the machinery to help nature eliminate the unfit. First, the genetically inferior the mentally and physically disabled. Next were gypsies, Jews and others. The rest of the story is well known. Today, evolutionary thinking enables ordinary, respectable professionals, otherwise dedicated to the saving of life, to justify their involvement in the slaughter of millions of unborn human beings, who, like the Aborigines of earlier Darwinian thinking, are also deemed not yet fully human.
References
Darwin's Bodysnatchers, Creation 12(3):21, JuneAugust 1990. David Monaghan, The body-snatchers, The Bulletin, November 12. 1991, pp. 3038. (The article states that journalist Monaghan spent 18 months researching this subject in London, culminating in a television documentary called Darwin's Body-Snatchers, which was aired in Britain on October 8, 1990.) Monaghan, p. 33. According to the records of the Bowen Shire Council. Same as ref. 3. In The Bulletin article, Monaghan quotes two long paragraphs from Korah Wills' five-page manuscript. Monaghan, p. 34. Monaghan identifies the student as W.S. Day. Monaghan, p. 33. Monaghan is here quoting Dr Rae Sumner, a lecturer at the Queensland Institute of Technology's School of Language and Literacy Education. Monaghan, p. 34. Monaghan identifies the missionary as Lancelot Threlkeld. Monaghan, p. 38.
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