Darwin’s Sacred Cause Creationists still try to smear evolutionary science by claiming that it is intrinsically racist,  and in particular, that Darwin was racist. 1) First of all, it must be pointed out that whether or not you like an idea,  your feelings have no relevance to its veracity.   The thought, "I don't like this so it can't be true" has all the hallmarks of a toddler's reasoning,  reasoning that most of us grow out of by about the age of three. 2) Secondly, and of equal importance , evolutionary science replaced earlier notions  of human origins that were inherently based on the idea of "race".  Polygenism was the idea that held sway before Darwin.  Each "race" arose or was created separately, propagated  by the then leading "authority", Louis Agassiz, a man,  who, in contrast to Darwin, could not even bear to be in the company of Sub-Saharan Africans or their recent descendants. Louis Agassiz Although Agassiz did not o...