Post by Charity on Jul 23, 2005 9:31:46 GMT -5
Q: Were Australian Aborigines actually slaughtered and collected as specimens for evolution research?
A: It’s a sad fact of history—but that’s exactly what did happen!
Charles Darwin believed that the Australian Aborigines were the ‘missing links’ of evolution. As a result, hunters came to Australia to kill the Aborigines and bring them home as specimens for museums. In fact, in the early 1900s, the Aborigines were listed as animals in a booklet from an Australian museum!
There are many accounts of how various people hunted down Aboriginal men, women and children. They were killed like animals—skinned—and their skulls boiled down, and the best specimens would be sent to places like America, England and Germany.
It’s been estimated that perhaps 10,000 graves of Australian Aboriginal people were desecrated for specimens to be sent to museums in a frenzied attempt to prove the widespread belief that they were the missing link. American evolutionists were also involved in gathering specimens of so-called “subhumans.” The Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. holds the remains of 15,000 individuals of various so-called “races.”
Evolution is taught as fact throughout government education systems, so it’s no wonder that many people today still have racist attitudes.
For a deeper look at evolution’s impact on the Australian Aborigines see Darwin’s body snatchers.
Recommended resources:
www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/...od/chapter9.asp
A: It’s a sad fact of history—but that’s exactly what did happen!
Charles Darwin believed that the Australian Aborigines were the ‘missing links’ of evolution. As a result, hunters came to Australia to kill the Aborigines and bring them home as specimens for museums. In fact, in the early 1900s, the Aborigines were listed as animals in a booklet from an Australian museum!
There are many accounts of how various people hunted down Aboriginal men, women and children. They were killed like animals—skinned—and their skulls boiled down, and the best specimens would be sent to places like America, England and Germany.
It’s been estimated that perhaps 10,000 graves of Australian Aboriginal people were desecrated for specimens to be sent to museums in a frenzied attempt to prove the widespread belief that they were the missing link. American evolutionists were also involved in gathering specimens of so-called “subhumans.” The Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. holds the remains of 15,000 individuals of various so-called “races.”
Evolution is taught as fact throughout government education systems, so it’s no wonder that many people today still have racist attitudes.
For a deeper look at evolution’s impact on the Australian Aborigines see Darwin’s body snatchers.
Recommended resources:
www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/...od/chapter9.asp
