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Doug Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Richard Weikart

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Richard Weikart
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December 16, 2024
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Evolution
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Did Darwin Banish Teleology from Nature or Not?

Richard Weikart
December 16, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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James G. Lennox quotes from an 1862 essay, where Darwin wrote that “the final cause of all this mimicry” among butterflies is evading predation. Read More ›
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Richard Weikart
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December 12, 2024
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Is It a Myth That Darwin Rejected Design?

Richard Weikart
December 12, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Deism is the idea that God created the cosmos and its natural laws, but thereafter did not intervene with miraculous events. Read More ›
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Richard Weikart
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December 11, 2024
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A New Scholarly Book Trying to Debunk Myths about Charles Darwin and His Theory

Richard Weikart
December 11, 2024
Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Some debunkers need to be debunked themselves, because instead of correcting falsehoods, they end up creating or perpetuating falsehoods. Read More ›
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Richard Weikart
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September 9, 2024
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Bioethics
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The Contradiction in Peter Singer’s Worldview

Richard Weikart
September 9, 2024
Bioethics, Medicine, Philosophy
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He never provides any reason why rationality, self-consciousness, and the ability to plan the future have any value. Read More ›
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Richard Weikart
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August 26, 2024
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Bioethics
Evolution
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Darwinian Death: Euthanasia Meets Eugenics

Richard Weikart
August 26, 2024
Bioethics, Evolution
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One powerful influence on the early euthanasia movement was eugenics ideology, which emerged first in the 1860s under the leadership of Francis Galton. Read More ›
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Richard Weikart
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August 19, 2024
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Life Devalued: Suicide and Infanticide in Classical Antiquity

Richard Weikart
August 19, 2024
Bioethics, Medicine
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Nick Vujicic’s story would probably have turned out quite differently if he had been born in ancient Greece or Rome. Read More ›
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Richard Weikart
Date
August 12, 2024
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Bioethics
Faith & Science
Medicine
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Unalienable Rights, You Say? Why We Must Resist Yuval Harari’s “Scientific” Nihilism

Richard Weikart
August 12, 2024
Bioethics, Faith & Science, Medicine
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History attests that when a culture does not draw a firm line protecting human life, it inevitably progresses to ending lives for all manner of reasons. Read More ›
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Richard Weikart
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June 3, 2022
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Bioethics
Evolution
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Linking Darwin Skepticism with Anti-Communism, Historian Offers a Misguided Attack

Richard Weikart
June 3, 2022
Bioethics, Evolution, Intelligent Design
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Weinberg's evidence that Discovery Institute uses intelligent design to bash communism is completely lacking. Read More ›
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Richard Weikart
Date
June 2, 2022
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Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
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Do Darwin Critics Reject Evolution Because They’re Anti-Communists? Carl Weinberg Says Yes

Richard Weikart
June 2, 2022
Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution
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In a couple of cases, Weinberg goes beyond the pale, making accusations that are bizarre and even slanderous. Read More ›
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Richard Weikart
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June 1, 2022
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Evolution
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Rejecting Evolution Because of Anti-Communism? Charge by Cornell U Press Book Fails to Detonate

Richard Weikart
June 1, 2022
Bioethics, Evolution
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Weinberg takes a historically accurate claim — that many creationists over the years blamed communism on evolution — and then blows it way out of proportion. Read More ›

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