Category: Evolution | Page 171 | Science and Culture Today

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August 14, 2021

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Evolution
Origin of Life
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, abiogenesis, Andrew McDiarmid, evolution, fiction, first cell, Frankenstein, Neil Thomas, re-animation, skeptics, Taking Leave of Darwin}

Taking Leave of Darwin’s Warm Little Pond

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August 14, 2021

Evolution, Origin of Life

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Neil Thomas explores some of the cultural influences that primed society to view the leap from non-life to life as easily made. Read More ›

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August 13, 2021

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Evolution
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, bioRxiv, CELS 2021, CRISPR, DNA, Emily Reeves, epigenetics, evolution, finches, gametes, genetic information, geneticists, hybridization, intelligent design, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Methanoperedens, natural selection, Nature (journal), Neil Thomas, New Scientist, organelles, Peter and Rosemary Grant, PNAS, Taking Leave of Darwin, The Scientist, University of Copenhagen, zygote}

Non-Mendelian Inheritance Undermines Neo-Darwinism

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August 13, 2021

Evolution

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Neo-Darwinians breathed a sigh of relief when in the 1930s they found a way to incorporate Mendel’s laws of heredity. Now, that relief is unraveling. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 12, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Aeschylus, Alexander Oparin, Carl Sagan, Charles Darwin, early Earth, Erasmus Darwin, Francis Crick, Frankenstein, Harold Urey, Hesiod, J.B.S. Haldane, James Watson, Joseph Hooker, Louis Pasteur, Mary Shelley, Miller-Urey experiment, Ovid, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus, re-animation, Richard Dawkins, Stanley Miller, Time Magazine, University of Chicago}

Myths, Monsters, and Life’s Elusive First Step

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August 12, 2021

Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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The notion that the building blocks of life were easily gotten may have seemed intuitive to journalists and others acquainted with Mary Shelley’s novel. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 11, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, Adam Hochschild, colonialism, Congo, Darwinism, documentary, George H.W. Bush, George Herbert Walker, Human Zoos, John Hawks, John West, King Leopold, Philippines, Royal Museum for Central Africa, St. Louis, Summer White House, Tervuren, U.S. Presidents, Walker’s Point, World's Fair}

Human Zoos — International, Still Being Airbrushed

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August 11, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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The Belgian human zoo sounds exactly like the St. Louis equivalent just a few years later. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
August 10, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Technology
Tagged
, Arthur Balfour, C.S. Lewis, Dallas, Darwinian theory, discrimination, gravitation, Herbert Spencer, Hiroshima, Human Zoos, intelligent design, James Jeans, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Day, materialism, Nagasaki, progress, Racism, Science, scientific racism, scientism, Strength to Love}

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

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August 10, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution, Technology

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Dr. King was critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke against the idea that humans are the products of a blind process. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 9, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, “consensus science”, atheism, cognition, computer scientists, consciousness, Darwinism, David Gelernter, intelligent design, materialism, Michael Behe, mind, Mind and Cosmos, neo-Darwinian theory, philosophers, Princeton University, Public Discourse, Stephen Meyer, Thomas Nagel}

Little Book, Big Waves — Nagel’s Mind and Cosmos, Nine Years Later

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August 9, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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As a colleague points out, Nagel's departure from the “right-thinking consensus” is on a par with David Gelernter’s 2019 farewell to Darwinism. Read More ›

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August 8, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
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, African Americans, Amazon Prime, And Still We Rise, Angela King, apes, Bronx Zoo, Charles H. Wright Museum, Detroit, Discovery Institute, documentary, eugenics, forced sterilization, Human Zoos, humans, John West, missing links, Monkey House, New York City, Ota Benga, Planned Parenthood, Racism, Saartjie Baartman, Social Darwinism, Valerie Sweeney Prince, Wayne State University}

Documentary Human Zoos Is Screened at Detroit’s African-American History Museum

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August 8, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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The film tells how thousands of indigenous peoples were put on public display in America in what scholars today call “human zoos.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
August 5, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Anaximenes, ancient Greeks, atomism, Charles Darwin, creation, daemons, David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Enlightenment, Epicurus, evolution, Fates, Greek gods, harpies, intelligent design, Iphigenia, King Agamemnon, Lucretius, On the Nature of Things, Romans, satyrs, Stephen Greenblatt}

Evolution Versus Design: An Ancient Debate

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August 5, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The universe, according to Epicureanism, is without a creator, a purposeless and non-intelligent concourse of atoms without any cosmic source of direction. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 4, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, atheism, Cupples Hall, Darwin Devolves, Darwinism, evolution, evolutionary theory, human origins, Human Zoos, John Jay College, John West, Michael Behe, missing links, Nathan Lents, Nazis, Newspeak, polygenism, pseudoscience, Racism, Richard Lenski, S. Joshua Swamidass, Science (journal), St. Louis, St. Louis Republic, St. Louis World's Fair, Washington University}

Biologist: It’s “Racist” to Invite Condemnation of Racism

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August 4, 2021

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

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Organizers of the St. Louis World’s Fair believed human zoos would “shed light on the theory evolved by Darwin as regards the evolution of the human race.” Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 3, 2021

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Political Science
Tagged
, "created equal", animism, atheism, creator, David Klinghoffer, Declaration of Independence, elitism, emotivism, endowed by their creator, equality, evolution, evolutionary ethics, freedom, Homo sapiens, human rights, ideas have consequences, metaethics, monotheism, morality, myths, nihilism, noble lie, polytheism, religion, Sapiens review, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, subjectivism, Thomas Jefferson, truth, Voltaire, Yuval Noah Harari}

Reviewing Sapiens: An Evolutionary Deconstruction of Human Rights

_{Casey Luskin
August 3, 2021

Ethics, Evolution, Political Science

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Yuval Noah Harari deconstructs the most famous line from the Declaration of Independence. Read More ›