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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 17, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Cambridge University, Charles Darwin, correspondence, cruelty, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, dehumanization, evolution, fact check, history, HMS Beagle, James Moore, newspapers, Racism, Robert Fitzroy, Sacred Cause (series), slavery, slaves}

Fact Check: Imagining Darwin’s Abolitionism

_{Robert Shedinger
March 17, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

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Desmond and Moore tell us that Darwin assured his sisters that his principles on slavery hadn’t changed despite spending five years living with Captain FitzRoy. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, common descent, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, evolution, historiography, history, HMS Beagle, human origins, James Moore, new york, Ohio, Pennsylvania, race, Racism, Sacred Cause (series), slavery, Tierra del Fuego}

“Sacred Cause”? Reconsidering Charles Darwin as Abolitionist

_{Robert Shedinger
March 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I offer a series of posts here designed to lay out the evidence in detail. It is not merely that Desmond and Moore are selective in the sources they cite. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
December 13, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, Biston betularia, Christmas Eve, courage, creationists, Icons of Evolution, industrial melanism, Jerry Coyne, Michael Majerus, natural selection, Nature (journal), peppered moth, scientific evidence, textbooks, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Why Evolution Is True}

Jerry Coyne — An Evolutionist and His Ideology

_{Robert Shedinger
December 13, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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At least some others have the courage to stand for what they believe even in the face of potential criticism. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
November 30, 2022

Categories
Astronomy
Physical Sciences
Science
Tagged
, aesthetics, extraterrestrial life, Galileo Galilei, Harvard University, heliocentric model, intelligent design, Luther College, Nicolaus Copernicus, physicists, Ptolemaic system, religion, solar system, telescope}

Religious Intuition Can Lead to Scientific Discovery: The Cases of Copernicus and Ferguson

_{Robert Shedinger
November 30, 2022

Astronomy, Physical Sciences, Science

5}

ID is not religion. But even if we were to concede falsely that it is, such a characterization is irrelevant to the question of whether it is true. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 28, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Tagged
, American South, ants, Charles Darwin, Civil War, Connecticut, Ernst Haeckel, eugenics, evolution, Francis Galton, On the Origin of Species, race, Racism, scientific racism, slavery, Victorian England}

Origin of Species — A Safe Book in the South?

_{Robert Shedinger
September 28, 2022

Bioethics, Culture

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We can assume that this writer would have been a Connecticut Yankee, a strong opponent of the South and slavery. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 13, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Asa Gray, Bridgewater Treatises, evolution, fertilization, history, insects, intelligent design, John Murray, Linnean Society, monograph, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orchids, Sigmund Freud, William Paley}

Charles Darwin’s Freudian Slip

_{Robert Shedinger
September 13, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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It looks like Darwin was as impressed as everyone else by the amazing ingenuity in orchids and could not ignore the evidence for design. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
April 20, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Bridgewater Treatises, Charles Darwin, evolution, intelligent design, natural history, natural selection, natural theology, On the Origin of Species, orchids, Richard Dawkins}

Charles Darwin’s “Intelligent Design”

_{Robert Shedinger
April 20, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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"To those whose delight it is to dwell upon the manifold instances of intelligent design which everywhere surround us, this book will be a rich storehouse." Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
April 19, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Asa Gray, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, evolution, fertilization, insects, intelligent design, John Murray, Linnean Society, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orchids, William Paley}

Darwin’s Most Important Book?

_{Robert Shedinger
April 19, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Darwin was not at all unsure about the value of his orchid book. He viewed it as presenting the most convincing case for natural selection that he could make. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 22, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, apologetics, Aristotle, Christianity, creationism, Darwinian theory, Darwinism, evolution, faith, Islam, Martin Luther, Muslims, Plato, Protestantism, Pythagoras, Richard Dawkins, scientific establishment, secularization, theology}

Muslims Should Be Natural Allies of Intelligent Design

_{Robert Shedinger
February 22, 2022

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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I have been invited to speak at many Islamic Centers throughout the United States and Canada over the last ten years. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
February 10, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Asa Gray, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Down House, Emma Darwin, evolution, John Murray, Joseph Hooker, Journal of Researches, Linnean Society, On the Origin of Species, Peter Bowler, Quarterly Review, Southeast Asia, Whitwell Elwin}

Darwin’s Reticence: How on Earth Did the Origin of Species Ever Get Published?

_{Robert Shedinger
February 10, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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Even Darwin would be aghast at what the world has made of a mere abstract that he was almost pathologically ambivalent about ever publishing. Read More ›