Tag: Charles Kingsley

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
April 3, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, 1619 Project, Anglo-Saxons, Big Book, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, cisnormative, conservative Christians, conservatives, Darwin’s Bluff, David Berlinski, David Moulton, Discovery Institute, Dover Area School District, Ernst Mayr, Evolution’s Rainbow, Francis Crick, George Gaylord Simpson, HMS Beagle, Holly Dunsworth, Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, J.B.S. Haldane, Joan Roughgarden, Leif Jensen, liberalism, liberals, Michael Behe, Michael Denton, Nikole-Hannah Jones, On the Origin of Species, orchids, pseudoscience, Sewell Wright, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomas Nagel}

Intelligent Design Is Not Just for Conservatives

_{Robert Shedinger
April 3, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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After a decade of immersing myself in Darwin studies, evolutionary theory, and intelligent design, I find myself unexpectedly supportive of the iD position. Read More ›

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
May 30, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Communism, concentration camp, eugenics, Islam, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Ku Klux Klan, Lothrop Stoddard, Margaret Sanger, Martin Luther King Jr., Mein Kampf, Michael Flannery, Planned Parenthood, Racism, William Graham, World War I}

How the Christian Civil Rights Movement Defeated Social Darwinism and Eugenics

_{John Zmirak
May 30, 2024

Bioethics, Evolution

10}

American apostles of Darwinism had begun the 20th century weaponizing common racist attitudes to popularize Darwin’s theory Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 7, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Arthur Koestler, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Charles Lyell, Darwinism, epigenetics, Greek philosophers, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Joseph Hooker, Lamarckian theory, Ludwig von Bertalanffy, Mendelian genetics, mount improbable, natural preservation, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, Pyrrho, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Stephen Buranyi, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, The Guardian}

Darwin and the Ghost of Lamarck

_{Neil Thomas
July 7, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science

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The lure of Lamarck was exemplified most strikingly in the case of Viennese biologist Paul Kammerer and the unhappy affair of the “midwife toad.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 21, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, creation, evolution, James Moore, Origin of Species: From Discussion Document to Nihilist Dogma (series), Oxford, Samuel Wilberforce, theistic Darwinism, theistic evolution, theology, Victorian period}

The Rise of Theistic Darwinism

_{Neil Thomas
March 21, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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This form of objection left the door ajar to the kind of “hybrid” interpretation favored by some in both Britain and America in the later Victorian period. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 11, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, African Americans, Anglo-Saxons, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Christopher E. Cosans, Civil War, Darwinism, Edward Drinker Cope, Eva Jablonka, evolution, evolutionary anthropology, Henrika Kuklik, James Moore, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Josiah Clark Nott, Kyla Schuller, Lamarckian theory, Livia Gershon, Louis Agassiz, Peter Bowler, Racism, Rupert Sheldrake, Rutgers University, Samuel George Morton, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Graham, women’s suffrage, Yoav Soen}

Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand

_{Michael Flannery
July 11, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

10}

“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.” Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 8, 2021

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Tagged
, Asa Gray, biographers, botanists, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, cross-fertilization, Darwinian theory, fertility, health, insects, mythology, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, orchids, sexuality}

Why Darwin Exaggerated His Health Problems

_{Robert Shedinger
July 8, 2021

Botany, Evolution

5}

All the evidence points to Darwin as a generally healthy man with a strong, active libido, normal sexual function, and prodigious fertility. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
February 10, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adam Gopnik, Anglo-Saxons, Applied Eugenics, Artificial Selection, Black History Month, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Darwin Day, Darwin Deleted, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, eugenics, Europeans, extermination, humankind, On the Origin of Species, Paul Broca, Peter Bowler, racial equality, racial superiority, Racism, The Descent of Man, William Graham}

Darwin and Race: Three Strikes, He’s Out

_{Michael Flannery
February 10, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

7}

February is Black History Month, and this week, Friday, February 12, is Darwin Day — the birthday of Charles Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
November 23, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, African Americans, Anglo-Saxons, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Christopher E. Cosans, Civil War, Darwinism, Edward Drinker Cope, Eva Jablonka, evolution, evolutionary anthropology, Henrika Kuklik, James Moore, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Josiah Clark Nott, Kyla Schuller, Lamarckian theory, Livia Gershon, Louis Agassiz, Peter Bowler, Racism, Rupert Sheldrake, Rutgers University, Samuel George Morton, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Thomas Henry Huxley, William Graham, women’s suffrage, Yoav Soen}

Distancing Darwin from Racism Is a Fool’s Errand

_{Michael Flannery
November 23, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

9}

“Scholars have wasted their time trying to exonerate Darwin of responsibility for Social Darwinism, for he was a Social Darwinist.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
January 3, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Dickson White, Benjamin Wiker, Bridgewater Treatises, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, City University of New York, Cornell University, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinists, Ernst Mayr, Francis Galton, George Will, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Harry Bruinius, history, Jacques Barzun, James D. Watson, James Moore, Jeffrey Shallit, John William Draper, Julian Huxley, Leo Strauss, Mein Kampf, Panda's Thumb, PZ Myers, Victorian England}

Himmelfarb and Her Haters

_{Michael Flannery
January 3, 2020

Evolution

41}

What can be said of Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution in the dusk of 2009, fifty year after its original publication? Is it a terrible book? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
August 23, 2011

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, __nedited, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, Darwin's Heretic (Alfred Wallace), history, history of evolutionary theory, integration, Marie Curie, Origin of Species, orthodoxy, social activism, socialism, The Descent of Man, theistic evolution, universalism}

Darwin’s First Theist: Charles Kingsley and the Problem of Coherence

_{Michael Flannery
August 23, 2011

Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science

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Darwin had already won his man over — reading the book was almost superfluous. Of course Darwin was delighted by Kingsley's fawning support. Read More ›