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Darwin's Deadly Legacy is a creationist film staring D. James Kennedy, asserting that Adolf Hitler grounded his genocidal actions on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution. The film was produced by Coral Ridge Ministries. The film aired August 26-27, 2006 during Coral Ridge Ministries' the "Coral Ridge Hour," accompanied by a book titled Evolution's Fatal Fruit: How Darwin's Tree of Life Brought Death to Millions. A prebroadcast CRM boasted that "the program features 14 scholars, scientists and authors who outline the grim consequences of Darwin's theory of evolution and show how his theory fueled Hitler's ovens." CRM spokesman John Aman contended that "Darwinism is a philosophy, it's a worldview, and one of the key things in it is that evolution advances by death, so death is a good thing. Hitler thought he was doing civilization a favor by eliminating lives that were not worth living. We, of course, think that is an egregious moral tragedy and a consequence of the worldview that was initiated by Darwin and popularized by his followers."

The film stars James Kennedy, Ann Coulter, Lee Strobel, Richard Weikart, Jonathan Wells, Phillip Johnson, Michael Behe, Ken Ham Ian Taylor, Earl Tilford, and (very briefly) Francis Collins. Yes, Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute. However, after viewing the film, he was "absolutely appalled" at how his comments were used in the film. "I had no knowledge that Coral Ridge Ministries was planning a TV special on Darwin and Hitler, and I find the thesis of Dr. Kennedy's program utterly misguided and inflammatory."

An ad funded by the CRM states that millions of Americans are being lied to, a lie hiding as scientific fact. The film then presents a short book titled "Evidence for Creation: Intelligent Answers for Open Minds" by Tom DeRosa, foreward by James Kennedy.

Film Overview
The film is piled with typical creationist propaganda. The first half was all Nazis and Columbine. There is no mention of Hitler's Christianity. Rather, the film focuses on the belief that everything was driven by "Darwinism." The second half was all about the "crumbling theory of evolution." All the old chestnuts were tossed out. "It's just a theory", 747s being spontaneously assembled while monkeys write Shakespeare, Behe babbling about "molecular machines," Strobel saying there were no transitional fossils, Nebraska Man, teach both theories, and that famous paleontologist, Ann Coulter, telling us that all forms of life suddenly appeared in the Cambrian explosion and did you know you'll get sued if you mention the Cambrian in a classroom?