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American Museum of Natural History
Photo: Statue of Theodore Roosevelt outside AMNH, by Mike Steele, via Flickr (cropped).

New York Museum Benefited from African Genocide

As of 2018, the skulls were still housed in the AMNH’s collections, although the museum allowed a delegation of a dozen Hereros to view the remains. Read More ›
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Survey Misclassifies Darwin-Doubting Teachers

This project cannot tell us how many students are taught evolution dogmatically and how many are studying it scientifically. Read More ›
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White Fragility — A Free Pass for Scientists?

“White Fragility” is the phrase of the moment. It refers to an unwillingness on the part of white people to admit “complicity” with racism. Read More ›
The Biology of the Second Reich
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African Genocide: The Horror of Scientific Racism

My documentary only tells one part of the story of racism, and only a part of the story of Social Darwinism's influence on Western imperialism. Read More ›
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Whale Song: Learning from Our Critics

A substantive argument is a lovely thing to behold, to watch or to listen to, even if punctuated (in Myers's case) by the usual grumpy insults. Read More ›
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The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution

The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack. Read More ›
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Elk Goes Down; Darwin Breathes a Sigh of Relief

What is the evolutionary argument against unapologetic racism and the supremacy of whatever race can climb to the top? Read More ›
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In a Nutshell: Three Problems for Evolution

Biologist Robert Waltzer briefly details the engineering wonder that permits oxygen to be carried by the blood. Read More ›
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The Demise of the Artifact Hypothesis

Darwinists have to face the fact that a core prediction of their theory miserably failed an important empirical test. Read More ›
Lenski’s terrific LTEE
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Photo: Richard Lenski’s LTEE, by Brian Baer and Neerja Hajela [CC BY-SA 1.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Listen: Michael Behe on a Citrate Death Spiral

Evolution is good at creating niche advantages by breaking things; it isn’t good at building fundamentally novel forms. Read More ›

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