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Charles Darwin statue
Charles Darwin statue
Photo: Darwin statute at the Natural History Museum, by Alan Perestrello, via Flickr (cropped).

Darwin’s Reticence: How on Earth Did the Origin of Species Ever Get Published?

Even Darwin would be aghast at what the world has made of a mere abstract that he was almost pathologically ambivalent about ever publishing. Read More ›
Hitler
Photo source: Photolibrarian, via Flickr.

Weikart: Hitler’s “Might Is Right” Ethic Drawn from Darwinism

Historian Richard Weikart moves into a discussion of neo-Nazis, contemporary white nationalists, and the alt-right. Read More ›
Pliohippus Pernix
Image: Pliohippus Pernix, by Claire H. from New York City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Khan Academy “Evidence for Evolution” Video Pushes the Fake Fossil Horses Series

The video draws arrows from one species of fossil horses to the next and says “there is a constant change and we can see it directly through the fossil record.” Read More ›
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Photo: Charles Darwin in 1855, by Maull and Polyblank, Literary and Scientific Portrait Club, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Racism of Darwin and Darwinism

Not only racism, but racial extermination was an integral feature of Darwin’s theory from the start. Read More ›
Nuclear Pore Complex
Image: Nuclear pores in the nuclear envelope, by Blausen.com staff (2014). "Medical gallery of Blausen Medical 2014". WikiJournal of Medicine 1 (2). DOI:10.15347/wjm/2014.010. ISSN 2002-4436., CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Nuclear Pore Complex Comes into Focus

Super-resolution microscopy is letting us peer even closer into the cell’s secrets, revealing awesome wonders. Read More ›
circular
Photo credit: Matheo JBT via Unsplash.

Khan Academy Video, “Evidence for Evolution,” Gives Circular Arguments for Common Ancestry

If you define homology as resulting from common ancestry, you can’t then turn around and use that as an argument for common ancestry. Read More ›
sand castle
Photo credit: Phil Hearing via Unsplash.

Darwin’s Rhetorical Foundation of Sand: Theological Utilitarianism

Evolutionary theory, argued in the way that Darwin and many of his followers argue the case, is fundamentally theology-based. Read More ›
Upland goose
Photo: Upland geese, by Silvia Richardson, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Why the Main Argument Against Intelligent Design Is False

As Darwin argued, “we can hardly believe that the webbed feet of the upland goose or of the frigate-bird are of special use to these birds." Read More ›
Holocaust
Photo credit: ElissaCapelleVaughn, via Pixabay.

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

Leading scientists were complicit in helping formulate and justify Hitler’s worldview. Read More ›
C.-S.-Lewis
Photo: C. S. Lewis, via Asar Studios/Alamy (Celestial Images).

The Terrible Bargain: Prophetic Words from C. S. Lewis on Scientocracy

If there is one thing I could get people to read to understand our situation, it would be the essay “Willing Slaves of the Welfare State” by C. S. Lewis. Read More ›

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