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Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

I have no idea what King would have thought of the modern theory of intelligent design, but many of the ideas he expressed are certainly friendly to ID. Read More ›
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Image, Belisarius Begging for Alms, by Jacques-Louise David.

To Say the Least, Altruism Is Not an Easy Fit with Darwinism

Evolutionists have made some progress (they think) explaining such things with theories of group selection or kin selection. Read More ›
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When Darwinism Reigns, “The Pyramid Is the Point”

The Darwinian view encourages a way of interacting with others where the aim is to “humiliate [one’s] lesser brethren, just to remind them who’s boss.” Read More ›
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Photo: George Bernard Shaw in 1936, via Wikimedia Commons.

Shaw, Scientism, and Darwinism

George Bernard Shaw’s positive criterion by which to measure and ridicule folly and vice was fatally ambiguous, eclectic, and inconstant. Read More ›
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Bright Idea: Put Scientists in Charge Instead?

Could scientists and advocates of scientism really make a worse hash of things than the politicians? Read More ›
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Darwinism as the Root Problem of Modernity

Shaw and Chesterton believed that the acceptance of Darwinism made it impossible to resist social Darwinism, plutocracy, imperialism, racialism, and militarism. Read More ›
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Photo: George Bernard Shaw in 1914, via Wikimedia Commons.

Shaw, Chesterton, and the Critique of Darwinism

Chesterton was a friend of Shaw but also an ideological opponent, who often debated with him on public stages. Read More ›
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#9 Story of 2020: An Antidote to Despair

I am a biologist, a worker in a field with a sorrowful history of categorizing human beings by race. Read More ›
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Austrian Court Creates Right to Assisted Suicide

A bit ago, Germany’s high court created an absolute right to commit suicide and the concomitant right to have help in making oneself dead. Read More ›
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Top Medical Journal: No Sex Designation on Birth Certificates

The authors also want sex designations removed from important documents such as passports. Read More ›

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