Lew, the recent eruption of the Mt. Etna volcano on Sicily needs to be placed in mega historical context.  We find in analyzing the growth of modern geology and biology in relation to the Darwinian Revolution in evolutionary science, how these theories were twisted, perverted, or distorted in three decisive ways: (1) “Survival of the Fittest” Race – leading from Ernst Haeckel to Heinrich Himmler to Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust in Germany; (2) “Survival of the Fittest” Individual – leading to Social Darwinists William Graham Sumner in the U.S. and Herbert Spencer in the UK and their prescriptions for laissez-faire capitalism and opposition to the emerging welfare state; and finally, (3) “Survival of the Fittest” Class – leading from Karl Marx to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin and Marxist-Leninist Socialism in the Soviet Union. All three of these distortions of Darwin clashed in a minor little conflict called World War II.  These distorted theories later provided the ideological basis of the Cold War confrontation between East and West, the Soviets and their hegemonic empire versus the United States and its hegemonic empire.

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