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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
May 24, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Africa, anthropologists, 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, 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 ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
May 3, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Carl Woese, Charles Darwin, eukaryotic cells, Freeman Dyson, Jerry Coyne, Linnean Society, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, prokaryotic cells, Reductionism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Owen}

When Darwinian Evolution Became Obsolete

_{Michael Flannery
May 3, 2021

Evolution

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The theory of evolution by natural selection was unveiled to a poorly attended and generally inattentive audience at a Linnean Society meeting. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 28, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Auschwitz, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Darwinism, eugenics, Francis Galton, Fred Hoyle, Hitler’s Ethic, intelligent evolution, Jeffrey O’Connell, Joseph Hooker, Michael Ruse, Michael Shermer, Nazis, Richard Owen, Social Darwinism, spiritualism, teleology, Thomas Henry Huxley, William James}

Social Darwinism: The Wallace Factor

_{Michael Flannery
April 28, 2021

Evolution

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Ideas do indeed have consequences, but not all ideas play out the same way or weave their way in the history of ideas toward the same destination. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
April 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwinian evolution, Herbert Spencer, James Moore, Jeffrey O’Connell, Michael Ruse, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Richard Weikart, Robert Richards, Social Darwinism}

Some Additional Comments on Social Darwinism

_{Michael Flannery
April 27, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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O’Connell and Ruse’s failure to engage deeply and fully with the historiography of this question makes it hard to take their effort seriously. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 27, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, anti-evolution, biologists, Darwinism, evolution, intelligent design, Karl Giberson, Kenneth Miller, theistic evolution}

Another Problem with the “Anti-Evolution” Label

_{Michael Flannery
March 27, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The so-called “anti-evolution” charge against intelligent design is what sparked my initial interest in Alfred Russel Wallace some years ago. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 6, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, atheism, C.S. Lewis, evolution, George Bernard Shaw, history, Michael Ruse, panpsychism, philosophers, religion}

Michael Ruse on Purpose: A Conflicted Response

_{Michael Flannery
March 6, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy of Science

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Whatever else might be said of Ruse and his work, like all his books this one is worth having on the shelf. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 5, 2021

Categories
Arts
Evolution
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Mathematics
Tagged
, abstract thought, C.S. Lewis, Darwinian theory, Darwinism as religion, Michael Ruse, music, Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, scientific reductionism, South America, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Henry Huxley}

Michael Ruse on Purpose: The Flies in the Ointment

_{Michael Flannery
March 5, 2021

Arts, Evolution, Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Mathematics

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Ruse’s chronological snobbery might be forgiven if the claims he makes for Darwinism can be unequivocally substantiated. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 4, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotle, flies, Immanuel Kant, Michael Ruse, neo-Darwinian theory, Plato, religion}

Michael Ruse: Darwin’s Hedgehog Searches for Purpose

_{Michael Flannery
March 4, 2021

Evolution, Faith & Science, Philosophy

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For Ruse, “Darwin is like Moses” who “led his children [himself among them] to the Promised Land but never got there himself.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
February 11, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adam Sedgwick, Alfred Russel Wallace, animals, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwin Day, evolutionary racism, Frederick Douglass, freedom, humans, Ku Klux Klan, On the Origin of Species, Racism, Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation}

Frederick Douglass, Champion Abolitionist and Former Slave, on Evolutionary Racism

_{Michael Flannery
February 11, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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One wonders what kind of address Douglass would give on Darwin Day — falling tomorrow, February 12 — amidst Black History Month. Read More ›