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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
May 10, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, alt-right, Christianity, culture, Darwinian racism, eugenics, Evangelical Christianity, evolution, Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, Racism, religion, Science, Scientific American, scientific racism, white nationalists}

Anti-Racists Often Ignore This Non-Religious Source of Racism

_{Richard Weikart
May 10, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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Many white nationalists claim that Darwinism directly supports their ideology, because they think that races have evolved to different levels. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 15, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Sociology
Tagged
, Big Government, blacks, causation, Charles Darwin, correlation, Darwinian racism, elitism, evolution, evolutionists, human evolution, intellectuals, Racism, scientific racism, white nationalists}

Does Disbelief in Human Evolution Foment Racism?

_{Richard Weikart
April 15, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Sociology

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This study does not provide an adequate explanation as to why belief in evolution would cause one to be less racist. Indeed, the logic seems backwards. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
March 1, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, alt-right, American Renaissance, Charles Darwin, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, evolution, German, Gregor Mendel, John Derbyshire, Kenya, Kevin MacDonald, natural selection, Nazis, neo-Nazis, Nordic race, Norway, Steve Sailer, Sweden, white nationalists}

Darwinian Influences on the Alt-Right

_{Richard Weikart
March 1, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The overlapping categories of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and alt-right proponents regularly invoke Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 23, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, Ernst Haeckel, eugenics, evolution, evolutionary theory, human evolution, natural selection, Nazis, propaganda, scientific racism}

Darwinism in Nazi Propaganda

_{Richard Weikart
February 23, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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The authors considered human evolution especially important, because they believed it supported their vision of racial inequality. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 15, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, aborigines, Africans, Americas, Australia, barbarians, blacks, cannibalism, Darwinism, Europeans, evolution, gorilla, humans, Isaac Newton, On the Origin of Species, population, Racism, slaughter, slavery, Thomas Malthus, war, William Shakespeare, women}

Racism Serves Darwinism, Darwinism Serves Racism

_{Richard Weikart
February 15, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Racism was not just an incidental part of Darwin’s evolutionary theory. Rather Darwin considered racial inequality crucial evidence for his theory. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 9, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, Africa, Alfred Russel Wallace, Americas, Australia, Caucasians, Charles Darwin, competition, Darwinism, Europeans, evolution, genocide, imperialism, James Moore, John Stuart Mill, New Zealand, Racism, Social Darwinism}

The Racism of Darwin and Darwinism

_{Richard Weikart
February 9, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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Not only racism, but racial extermination was an integral feature of Darwin’s theory from the start. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 7, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Africans, anthropologists, anti-Semitism, Aryans, biologists, Christianity, Europe, evolution, Germans, Holocaust, Jews, Judaism, Native Americans, Nazi Germany, Nordic race, race, Racism, religion, scientific racism, Whoopi Goldberg}

Let’s Learn from Whoopi Goldberg’s Misunderstanding about the History of Racism

_{Richard Weikart
February 7, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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Leading scientists were complicit in helping formulate and justify Hitler’s worldview. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 2, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Columbine High School, Darwinian racism, Darwinism, disabled, Ernst Haeckel, eugenics, Europeans, evolution, genocide, Germany, Indiana, Michael Ruse, natural selection, Nazis, neo-Nazis, Nordic race, Peter Bowler, Racism, Robert Richards, Social Darwinism, Third Reich, white nationalism}

Darwinian Racism: How Evolutionary Theory Shaped Nazi Thinking

_{Richard Weikart
February 2, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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It was the spring 1999, a Denver suburb. The day, April 20 — Hitler’s birthday. An 18-year-old white nationalist donned a shirt emblazoned “Natural Selection.” Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
January 4, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Ecology
Ethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, ants, behavior, Charles Darwin, entomologists, evolution, human behavior, humans, meaning, morality, On the Origin of Species, physiology, purpose, religion, sociobiology, spirit, worldview}

Remembering E. O. Wilson and Sociobiology

_{Richard Weikart
January 4, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Ecology, Ethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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"Wilson is — if his worldview is correct — just as much living a lie as those religionists that he castigates." Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
July 13, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, African Americans, Africans, Allison Hopper, alt-right, anti-Semitism, Cambrian Explosion, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Doubt, Evangelical Christians, evolution, James Watson, Jews, Muslims, Nobel Prize, Racism, Scientific American, Stephen Meyer, The Descent of Man, white supremacy}

Is “Denying Evolution” a Form of White Supremacy?

_{Richard Weikart
July 13, 2021

Evolution

4}

What happens if we examine the real white supremacists today? Are they creationists? Read More ›