Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
Topic

alt-right

TuckerCarlson53067671125
Photo credit: Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Tucker Carlson and the Second Coming of the Alt-Right

The Alt-Right did more plundering of pseudo-science, while the Woke Right plunders Christianity while pretending to revere it. Read More ›
missing-link-1
Photo: An image from Human Zoos, via Discovery Institute.

“Eugenicons”? Call Them What They Are — Social Darwinists

It’s sad when once-useful words turn stale and disintegrate — like losing an old friend. Read More ›
Darwinian Racism graphic 1000x1000

Anti-Racists Often Ignore This Non-Religious Source of Racism

Many white nationalists claim that Darwinism directly supports their ideology, because they think that races have evolved to different levels. Read More ›
Charlottesville demonstration 2017
Photo: Charlottesville demonstration, 2017, by Anthony Crider; cropped by Beyond My Ken (talk) 20:37, 9 April 2018 (UTC), CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Ties that Bind: The Alt-Right’s Connections to Social Darwinist Madison Grant and Eugenics

It’s important to understand what the Alt-Right believes. They are not just an extreme offshoot of either the Right or the Left. Read More ›
Richard Spencer
alt-right
Photo: Richard Spencer, by Vas Panagiotopoulos [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinian Influences on the Alt-Right

The overlapping categories of neo-Nazis, white nationalists, and alt-right proponents regularly invoke Darwinism. 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 ›
bedtime story
Photo credit: Katherine Hanlon, via Unsplash.

From Scientific American, Another Bedtime Story for Atheists

The upshot of the best modern biology and cosmology can be epitomized by changing just one word in physicist Steven Weinberg’s famous comment. Read More ›
Monkey House
Monkey House
Photo: Bronx Zoo, Monkey House, by Antigng / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0).

Students Sue School District for $12 Million Over “Monkey See” Photos

“There can’t be any question about what they meant. Remember, this is a zoology class. Evolution is taught.” Read More ›
protest-2020-2-1024x594
Photo: A peaceful protest in Minneapolis, by Fibonacci Blue / CC BY.

Human Zoos — How “Science” Fueled the Racial Fire

Where did many white people of the past get the wicked idea that their lives matter more than black lives? Read More ›
Alexander H. Stephens
Photo: Alexander H. Stephens, by Matthew Brady, via Wikimedia Commons.

Scientific Racism and the Confederate Flag

Alexander H. Stephens was Vice President of the Confederacy. In 1861 he delivered an oration justifying slavery and rebellion on scientific grounds. Read More ›

© Discovery Institute