Tag: altruism

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 20, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, altruism, burning cars, Casey Luskin, culture, education, evolutionary mechanism, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary utility, genes, group selection, heroism, human behavior, kin selection, kindness, Marvel universe, podcast, reciprocal altruism, Richard Dawkins, selfish genes, strangers, teamwork}

Can Evolution Explain Altruism or Heroism?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 20, 2025

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

3}

Casey Luskin and I share separate recent examples of people who have run towards burning cars to save complete strangers. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 19, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Psychology
Tagged
, altruism, behavior, Casey Luskin, cooperation, Darwinian past, Denyse O’Leary, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary theory, human behavior, intelligent design, love, morality, predictive power, psychology, religion, Salvo Magazine, Science and Faith in Dialogue, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith}

If You Want Creative Storytelling, Look No Further than Evolutionary Psychology

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 19, 2025

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Psychology

2}

If evolutionary psychology attempts to explain every behavior, including each behavior’s opposite, can it really explain anything? Read More ›

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post

Date
November 11, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, altruism, Animal Algorithms, Charles Darwin, colony insects, Eric Cassell, evolution, evolutionary theory, ID the Future, intelligent design, orphan genes, Robert J. Marks II, technologists}

Amazing Insect Colonies vs. Evolution

_{Science and Culture
November 11, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

2}

How could a mindless evolutionary process have evolved these sophisticated colonies? Read More ›

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post

Date
January 16, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, altruism, Andrew McDiarmid, Darwinism, DNA, Evolution News, evolutionists, genes, group selection, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, kin selection, love, offspring, self-sacrifice, survival machines}

To Say the Least, Altruism Is Not an Easy Fit with Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
January 16, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

2}

Evolutionists have made some progress (they think) explaining such things with theories of group selection or kin selection. Read More ›

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post

Date
January 11, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Alice in Wonderland, alleles, altruism, antelopes, ants, behavior, behaviorism, bioRxiv, bonobos, cooperation, Darwinian theory, evolution, game theory, genetic determinism, kin selection, lions, love, pandemic, slime molds}

How to Destroy Love with Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
January 11, 2021

Biology, Evolution

9}

When Darwin proposed a new view of biology based on chance, he cheapened everything, including our most precious human values. Read More ›

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Author
Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig

Date
August 28, 2020

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, altruism, Charles Darwin, Darwinism, Darwinists, Granville Sewell, insects, On the Origin of Species, plant galls, Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig}

Plant Galls, Evolution, and Intelligent Design

_{Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
August 28, 2020

Botany, Evolution, Life Sciences

4}

Complex structures of thousands of species have been formed for the exclusive good of other species, annihilating Darwin’s theory on his own terms. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 11, 2020

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __edited, ALS, altruism, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, death, euthanasia, Groningen protocol, humanity, infanticide, kidney, surgeons, The New England Journal of Medicine, United Network for Organ Sharing, University of Pennsylvania, vultures}

“Surgeons as ‘Vultures’”: Medical Journal Pushes Harvesting Kidneys from Dying Patients

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 11, 2020

Medicine

4}

When organ-transplant medicine was launched, a wary society was solemnly promised that organs would be taken only from the dead. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
January 2, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, altruism, beauty, bees, California, crucifix, E.O. Wilson, Garden of Eden, goodness, group selection, J.P. Moreland, kin selection, logic, materialism, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, natural selection, neo-Darwinian processes, Neo-Darwinism, Paris, population genetics, prejudice, transcendentals, truth}

The Transcendental Treasury of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness

_{Ann Gauger
January 2, 2019

Intelligent Design

10}

Truth, beauty, and goodness are abstract concepts that correspond to our deepest desires. They are not likely to have evolved by a neo-Darwinian process. Read More ›

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post

Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
September 30, 2018

Categories
Science Education
Tagged
, __k-review, academic misconduct, altruism, Associated Press, Cornell University, evolution, food, investigation, James Madison University, scientific method, STEM education, Washington Post}

Lessons from the Wansink Science Scandal

_{Sarah Chaffee
September 30, 2018

Science Education

5}

Professor Alan Levinovitz asks: Science as "a big book of Important Truths"? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 22, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, altruism, animals, artificial intelligence, bonobos, Carl Zimmer, evolution, humans, intellect, just-so stories, machines, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, neuroscience, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, tools, toys, will}

Michael Egnor on Animal Generosity

_{David Klinghoffer
September 22, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

The failure to understand the gulf that separates humans from animals, and humans from machines, is a source of confusion to rival almost any other. Read More ›