No, the history of Eugenics was, thankfully, left out of the movie (that would be a bit further off topic than called for, methinks). The lengthy section on Nazi Germany, including a clip of Hitler announcing his eugenics plans, was mostly focused on the way a atheistic, blind evolution worldview easily leads to eugenics and inhumanity that resulted from such.

My only gripe with Expelled is that the shift from documenting the "shut up or we'll can you" stance of establishment science and academia towards even explaining the concept of ID to connecting ABE (Atheistic, Blind Evolution) to the policies and outlook of the Nazi regime took a big chunk (Dee's right: In retrospect, it was less than half, but I'd say no less than a third) of the movie time away from it's declared purpose. It's similar to going to a movie claiming to be about how Christians get censored while Muslims get uplifted in the media and finding a third of the movie is actually covering the evils committed in the name of Islam (Woo! Offense-fest!). It's not necessarily bad and may even be well done and fit right in with the rest of the movie, but it wasn't what you expected to see. I'd just appreciate the description including mention that considerable time is given to attacking ABE through its logical progression. Nonetheless, that section of the movie was certainly worthwhile for the dangers it pointed out, and it made the point quite well that Nazism's eugenics ideas were based directly off of a ABE outlook.

Regarding the claim that linking ABE to Nazi eugenics is a slippery slope fallacy, you might want to investigate the issue a bit. The link is there, and the Nazis weren't the only ones with that idea. If you don't mind using wikipedia for a broad glance at the subject, in numerous laws on the state level were passed regarding eugenics prior to WWII, and in excess of 45,000 Americans were forcibly sterilized by 1945. An excellent source has records of the laws passed, and more than once upheld by courts, requiring the sterilization of the insane and "socially inadequate". The same ideas as Nazi eugenics were well under way in being implemented nationwide right here in the US, and likely would have gone much further without the sobering example of eugenics' horrors provided by the Nazi regime. Whatever you may say, eugenics is a direct extension of the idea of ABE, and there are still some who advocate it today.

Now, am I saying that all supporters of evolution are Nazis? No, but the fantastical hyperbole is amusing. What I am saying is that one endorsing the idea of ABE should see no problem with the concept of eugenics. After all, it strengthens the species, and if there's no divine hand in our creation, anything we do is simply part of the "natural process", us being products of nature and all. Dispensing entirely with morality in favor of rationality is a dangerous thing, but it is exactly what many scientists claim to seek.

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