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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animal breeding, architect, beauty, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Duke of Argyll, evolution, Heinrich Bronn, Henry Tristram, intelligent evolution, Jerry Fodor, John Duns, Joseph Hooker, Man’s Place in the Universe, Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orangutan, Plurality of Worlds, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen, Sarawak Law, sexual selection, Supreme Creator, teleology, teleonomy, Ternate letter, The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication, The World of Life, utility, William Paley, William Whewell}

For Alfred Russel Wallace, Natural Selection Opened the Door to Teleology

_{Michael Flannery
September 12, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Charles Darwin always recognized to some extent the problem of removing all vestiges of intelligent causation from evolutionary processes. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Benjamin Wiker, Darwin: Portrait of a Genius, eugenics, evolution, forced sterilization, From Darwin to Hitler, Germany, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Harry Bruinius, Heidelberg University, history, Hitler’s Ethic, Jacques Barzun, James Moore, Janet Browne, Joseph Stalin, New Scientist, On the Origin of Species, Paul Johnson, Phillip E. Johnson, Racism, Richard Weikart, Slate, Social Darwinism, Stanley Jaki, The Descent of Man, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Thomas Malthus, United States, Victorian England}

Remembering Paul Johnson’s Assessment of Darwin

_{Michael Flannery
January 12, 2023

Evolution, Science

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The reviewers that insist this work is “ludicrous,” a “smear,” or a “hatchet job” are wrong; it is none of these. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 14, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, common descent, Copernican principle, fleas, Human Zoos, Jacques Barzun, John West, London, pandemic, plague, Plato, Racism, rats, scientism, Thomas Henry Huxley, Werner Heisenberg, X Club, Yersinia pestis}

Sunday with the Devil’s Acolyte — Thomas Henry Huxley

_{Michael Flannery
September 14, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Although the designation of Huxley as Darwin’s “bulldog” is well known, acolyte is a more appropriate term and here’s why. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
September 10, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Auguste Comte, Charles Darwin, Cornelius Hunter, Darwin’s God, Edinburgh, evolutionary theory, Janet Browne, John Murray, Jonathan Wells, Joseph Hooker, neo-Darwinian synthesis, positivism, Robert Edmond Grant, Ternate, theology}

Devil’s Chaplain: Evolution as a “Theological Research Program”

_{Michael Flannery
September 10, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science

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This stands the standard historiography and received wisdom concerning the development of modern evolutionary theory on its head. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, African Americans, Appomattox Court House, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, Christopher Cosans, Civil War, craniometrics, Darwin Day, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, evolution, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, functionalist evolution, Giovanni Camardi, Hottentot, John Hedley Brooke, Joseph Barnard Davis, Malayan, Michael Denton, natural selection, Nicolaas A. Rupke, Paul Broca, Racism, Richard Owen, Robert Chambers, structuralist evolution, The Descent of Man, The Reader, Thomas Henry Huxley, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation}

Richard Owen and Charles Darwin on Race: A Study in Contrasts

_{Michael Flannery
July 27, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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Darwin was unquestionably a racist, arguing that civilization would advance even at the cost of inevitable racial extermination. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 14, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, culture, Darwinian theory, gender, history, James Moore, morality, prejudices, Racism, Richard Owen, The College Fix, The Descent of Man, University of Sheffield, women}

Charles Darwin: Racist Spokesman for Anglo-Male Superiority?

_{Michael Flannery
July 14, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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The University of Sheffield’s teaching and research handbook has declared Charles Darwin a “racist.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 13, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Africa, anthropologists, Ashley Montagu, Augustin Fuentes, Charles Loring Brace, Civil War, colonialism, Darwin: Portrait of a Genius, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinists, genius, genocide, James Moore, Paul Johnson, Princeton University, Racism, Science (journal), slavery, textbooks, The Descent of Man, The Natural Superiority of Women, Thomas Henry Huxley, women}

Congratulations to Science Magazine for an Honest Portrayal of Darwin’s Descent of Man

_{Michael Flannery
July 13, 2021

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution

4}

On the book’s 150th anniversary, a prestigious journal is catching up with Darwin critics. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 11, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, African Americans, Anglo-Saxons, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Christopher E. Cosans, Civil War, Darwinism, Edward Drinker Cope, Eva Jablonka, evolution, evolutionary anthropology, Henrika Kuklik, James Moore, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Josiah Clark Nott, Kyla Schuller, Lamarckian theory, Livia Gershon, Louis Agassiz, Peter Bowler, Racism, Rupert Sheldrake, Rutgers University, Samuel George Morton, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Graham, women’s suffrage, Yoav Soen}

Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand

_{Michael Flannery
July 11, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
May 24, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Africa, anthropologists, Ashley Montagu, Augustin Fuentes, Charles Loring Brace, Civil War, colonialism, Darwin: Portrait of a Genius, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinists, genius, genocide, James Moore, Paul Johnson, Princeton University, Racism, Science (journal), slavery, textbooks, The Descent of Man, The Natural Superiority of Women, Thomas Henry Huxley, women}

Congratulations to Science Magazine for an Honest Portrayal of Darwin’s Descent of Man

_{Michael Flannery
May 24, 2021

Biology, Evolution

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On the book's 150th anniversary, a prestigious journal is catching up with Darwin critics. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
May 13, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, cancel culture, Charles Darwin, history, intelligence, James Moore, morality, natural selection, Racism, Richard Owen, The College Fix, The Descent of Man, University of Sheffield, women}

Charles Darwin: Racist Spokesman for Anglo-Male Superiority?

_{Michael Flannery
May 13, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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The University of Sheffield’s teaching and research handbook has declared Charles Darwin a “racist.” Read More ›