"A Darwinian Society Would be a Fascist State"

Interesting admission. Excerpts:

In an interview with an Austrian daily paper, Richard Dawkins said, "No decent person wants to live in a society which works according to Darwinian laws...a Darwinian society would be a fascist state...." (Die Presse, July 30, 2005, p. viii.)

The Viennese economist Ewald Walterskirchen points out the close relationship between neo-Darwinism and economic neo-liberalism:

Both theories start from the belief that only random changes or adaptations determine the process of development, by way of selection, that is, of competition. The United States economist Paul Krugman is quite right when he writes that a textbook on neo-classical micro-economics reads like an introduction to microbiology.

in economics, the close relationship to biology is seen especially in the writings of Hayek, who is reckoned to be one of the fathers of neo-liberalism. Friedrich von Hayek, a member of a family of biologists, talks explicitly about a "sifting" by the market. Hayek holds that a high rate of unemployment--like an excess population in the animal world--is economically desirable, so that natural selection can have something to work on. In turn the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development), the seat of neo-liberalism, interprets the economic crisis in Europe simply as a lack of ability to adapt to shocks--just as neo-Darwinians interpret the dying out of animal species.

The conclusions drawn from these reflections in terms of economic policy are quite clear: economic policy only needs to create the right overall framework and conditions for the selective mechanisms of the market to operate effectively. Decoded, this amounts to saying that we have to get rid of the European social model.(Der Standard, July 16/17, 2005)

..--Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, Chance or Purpose?: Creation, Evolution, and a Rational Faith (Ignatius Press, 2007), 170-171

Schoenborn's whole book is fascinating, well worth a read. He cuts between the poles of neo-Darwinian atheism and creationism/Intelligent Design theory to lay out a higher synthesis of evolution and creation, drawing especially from Thomism and the notion of continuing creation in ways I'm just beginning to comprehend. Very well done.