Kirk Cameron Stands Behind Controversial Darwin Statements

Did Hitler embrace the concept of Darwinism in his anti-Semitism?
Many of the most prominent advocates of the above idea knew little about Darwin, or actually repudiated him. So how could Darwinism be necessary for the Holocaust? Gobineau was skeptical of evolution, famously quipping “I’m not sure if humans came from apes, but we’re certainly heading in that direction.” Houston Chamberlain, the biologist whose massively influential racial meta-narrative modified Gobineau’s ideas into hatred of Jews and elevation of Germans, rejected Darwin outright. In his magnum opus of race, Foundations of the 19th Century, he passionately pleaded for Germans to recognize that the entire “moral and intellectual history of Europe” was a dramatic struggle between the contaminating chaos created by Jews and half-breeds, and the great attainments of civilization created by the masterful Germanic spirit. He thought Darwinism was part of the problem, not cure, and emphatically decried “the evolution mania and the pseudo-scientific dogmatism of our century” and “the frenzy produced by the dogma of evolution, which has led to such confusion of thought in the 19th Century.” Source: http://www.counterbalance.org/expelled/darwi2...

The Jewish organization, the Anti-Defamation League, issued this statement about the connection with Darwin and the Holocaust.
“Hitler did not need Darwin to devise his heinous plan to exterminate the Jewish people and Darwin and evolutionary theory cannot explain Hitler's genocidal madness. Using the Holocaust in order to tarnish those who promote the theory of evolution is outrageous and trivializes the complex factors that led to the mass extermination of European Jewry.”

Germany’s anti-Semitism did not start in 1859 when Darwin published his book “Origin of Species” but rather it occurred centuries before during the Middle Ages.
Martin Luther, the religious leader, epitomized, the hatred that Germans had towards Jews. He wrote in 1543 a book entitled:'On Jews and their lies' He had this to pronounce about them:
What shall we Christians do with this rejected and condemned people, the Jews? Since they live among us, we dare not tolerate their conduct, now that we are aware of their lying and reviling and blaspheming. If we do, we become sharers in their lies, cursing and blasphemy.

First, to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, so that God might see that we are Christians, and do not condone or knowingly tolerate such public lying, cursing, and blaspheming of his Son and of his Christians.”
http://www.awitness.org/books/luther/on_jews_...

As such, long before 1859 and Darwin, the Germans were anti-Semitic and did not need Darwin as a reason for the Holocaust.

Germany’s anti-Semitism did not start in 1859 when Darwin published his book “Origin of Species” but rather it occurred centuries before during the Middle Ages.
Martin Luther, the religious leader, epitomized, the hatred that Germans had towards Jews. He wrote in 1543 a book entitled:'On Jews and their lies' He had this to pronounce about them:
What shall we Christians do with this rejected and condemned people, the Jews? Since they live among us, we dare not tolerate their conduct, now that we are aware of their lying and reviling and blaspheming. If we do, we become sharers in their lies, cursing and blasphemy.

First, to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, so that God might see that we are Christians, and do not condone or knowingly tolerate such public lying, cursing, and blaspheming of his Son and of his Christians.”
http://www.awitness.org/books/luther/on_jews_...

As such, long before 1859 and Darwin, the Germans were anti-Semitic and did not need Darwin as a reason for the Holocaust.

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Did Hitler embrace the concept of Darwinism in his anti-Semitism?
Many of the most prominent advocates of the above idea knew little about Darwin, or actually repudiated him. So how could Darwinism be necessary for the Holocaust? Gobineau was skeptical of evolution, famously quipping “I’m not sure if humans came from apes, but we’re certainly heading in that direction.” Houston Chamberlain, the biologist whose massively influential racial meta-narrative modified Gobineau’s ideas into hatred of Jews and elevation of Germans, rejected Darwin outright. In his magnum opus of race, Foundations of the 19th Century, he passionately pleaded for Germans to recognize that the entire “moral and intellectual history of Europe” was a dramatic struggle between the contaminating chaos created by Jews and half-breeds, and the great attainments of civilization created by the masterful Germanic spirit. He thought Darwinism was part of the problem, not cure, and emphatically decried “the evolution mania and the pseudo-scientific dogmatism of our century” and “the frenzy produced by the dogma of evolution, which has led to such confusion of thought in the 19th Century.” Source: http://www.counterbalance.org/expelled/darwi2...

The Jewish organization, the Anti-Defamation League, issued this statement about the connection with Darwin and the Holocaust.
“Hitler did not need Darwin to devise his heinous plan to exterminate the Jewish people and Darwin and evolutionary theory cannot explain Hitler's genocidal madness. Using the Holocaust in order to tarnish those who promote the theory of evolution is outrageous and trivializes the complex factors that led to the mass extermination of European Jewry.”

Hitler and his goons had all sorts of reasons to go after the Jews after WWI
and adding Darwin to the mix doesn't add up since his idea of the Aryans being the "Master Race" and Darwin's theory that humans come from the same ancestor as our primate cousins (apes, chimps) would be anathema to the Nazi's idea that the Aryans are unique.