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New Book by Chaberek, Greene Probes Evolution as a “Catholic Dilemma”

I recently returned from a safari through Zimbabwe and South Africa. The high point, I’ll confess, was one wildlife encounter in particular. Read More ›
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Another “Scientific” Attack on Free Will

We don’t even know what consciousness is. If there is no free will, are we even really conscious? Read More ›
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The Dallas of Everything: Stephen Meyer’s Completed Pilgrimage

No one voice dominates the narration, with specialists who’d been interviewed stepping in to recount the parts of the story with which they’re familiar. Read More ›
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Remembering Bernie Widrow, a Great Engineer and a Wise Scientist

Widrow called his learning machine a neural network because it was loosely based on the 1943 McCulloch-Pitts model of the biological neuron. Read More ›
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The God of the Darwinian Age

It is a god who still holds great sway. In fact, we might say it is the god of this world. Read More ›
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Nature in the Image of Man: Introducing the New Social Darwinism 

Always, the initial social/intellectual change has come first, and the scientific paradigm shift has followed after. Read More ›
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Our View of Nature Matters; Here’s Why

I was standing amidst the ruins of the Berghof, Hitler’s retreat near the German-Austrian border, where some of the worst atrocities in history were planned. Read More ›
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Richard Weikart: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing

Dr. Weikart's book is a wide-ranging history of euthanasia and assisted suicide from ancient Greece to today.  Read More ›
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How the Christian Civil Rights Movement Defeated Social Darwinism and Eugenics

American apostles of Darwinism had begun the 20th century weaponizing common racist attitudes to popularize Darwin’s theory Read More ›
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Cambridge UP Book Airbrushes Darwin’s Contribution to Scientific Racism

Darwin’s racist and pro-eugenics thinking, combined with some implications of his theory that he expressed, laid the groundwork for Hitler’s diabolical outlook. Read More ›

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