Hitler\u2019s Religion: The Twisted Beliefs that Drove the Third Reich<\/em> (Regnery History, 2016), we set forth the claim that Hitler was neither an atheist nor a Christian but, almost certainly, a pantheist who deified Nature and who derived his ethical views from what is commonly referred to as \u201csocial Darwinism.\u201d<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
A few of our critics have claimed in response that, in that column, Dr. Hamblin and I were blaming Charles Darwin for the Nazi Holocaust. \u00a0We are, they suggest, at war with BYU\u2019s geology and biology faculty.<\/p>\n
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However, if we had wanted to make such an accusation, we would have made it.<\/p>\n
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A word, first of all, about Dr. Hamblin\u2019s background, which would make him \u2014 if he were<\/em> such \u2014 a very unlikely crusader against Darwinism or evolution or a very ancient Earth: \u00a0He is a son of the longtime BYU geology professor W. Kenneth Hamblin\u00a0(d. 2009; Ph.D., University of Michigan), who specialized in the study of the tectonic geomorphology of the Colorado Plateau and the Grand Canyon and who was, among other things, the author or co-author of such books as\u00a0
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