--- title: "3 Richard Weikart Quotes - Famous Historian" description: "American intelligent design advocate... | Richard Weikart is a professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus, advocate of intelligent ..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b197/author-richard-weikart-84796.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Richard Weikart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b197/author-richard-weikart-84796.jpg) # Richard Weikart (1958) Historian **3** quotes in **42** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Richard Weikart is a historian. ## Quick Facts About Richard Weikart Born July 1, 1958 Profession Historian ## About Richard Weikart American intelligent design advocate... \| Richard Weikart is a professor of history at California State University, Stanislaus, advocate of intelligent design and senior fellow for the Center for Science and Culture of the Discovery Institute. In 1997 he joined the editorial board of the Access Research Network's Origins & Design Journal. W ## Quotes by Richard Weikart > [Among German historians, there's really not much debate about whether or not Hitler was a social Darwinist. He clearly was drawing on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-weikart/among-german-historians-there-s-really-not-much-debate-about-whether/) Richard Weikart [Atheism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/atheism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/185/richard-weikart-84796_atheism_among-german-historians-there-s-really-n_563115.png) > [“Darwinism by itself did not produce the Holocaust, but without Darwinism... neither Hitler nor his Nazi followers would have had the necessary…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-weikart/darwinism-by-itself-did-not-produce-the-holocaust-but-without/) Richard Weikart [Atrocities](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/atrocities/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0dd/richard-weikart-84796_atrocities_darwinism-by-itself-did-not-produce-the_1435227.png) > [Darwinism undermined traditional morality and the value of human life. Then, evolutionary progress became the new moral imperative. This aided the advance…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-weikart/darwinism-undermined-traditional-morality-and-the-value-of-human-life/) Richard Weikart [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/830/richard-weikart-84796_advocating_darwinism-undermined-traditional-moralit_2079447.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-weikart/#itemlist", "name": "Richard Weikart Quotes", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Among German historians, there's really not much debate about whether or not Hitler was a social Darwinist. 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