Tag: Civil War

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Author
Nancy Pearcey

Date
September 17, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, abolitionists, Arabs, China, Christianity, Civil War, Enlightenment, Evangelical Christians, Gregory of Nyssa, image of God, Native Americans, Oberlin College, Rodney Stark, slavery, United States}

Slavery and the Image of God

_{Nancy Pearcey
September 17, 2023

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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America is the only country on Earth to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of its own citizens in a war to end slavery. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 28, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Tagged
, American South, ants, Charles Darwin, Civil War, Connecticut, Ernst Haeckel, eugenics, evolution, Francis Galton, On the Origin of Species, race, racial superiority, Racism, scientific racism, slavery, Victorian England, Yankee Stadium}

Origin of Species — A Safe Book in the South?

_{Robert Shedinger
September 28, 2022

Bioethics, Culture

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We can assume that this writer would have been a Connecticut Yankee, a strong opponent of the South and slavery. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, Civil War, evolution, Frederick Douglass, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gertrude Himmelfarb, history, Jacques Barzun, Michael Polanyi, On the Origin of Species, Racism, Richard Weikart, Robert E. Lee}

Aeschliman: The Charles Darwin/John Brown Connection

_{David Klinghoffer
March 30, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

3}

The year 1859, when Darwin changed the course of science and when John Brown rebelled and died, was a profound historical turning point. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 27, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, African Americans, Appomattox Court House, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, Christopher Cosans, Civil War, craniometrics, Darwin Day, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, evolution, Evolution: Still a Theory in Crisis, functionalist evolution, Giovanni Camardi, Hottentot, John Hedley Brooke, Joseph Barnard Davis, Malayan, Michael Denton, natural selection, Nicolaas A. Rupke, Paul Broca, Racism, Richard Owen, Robert Chambers, structuralist evolution, The Descent of Man, The Reader, Thomas Henry Huxley, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation}

Richard Owen and Charles Darwin on Race: A Study in Contrasts

_{Michael Flannery
July 27, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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Darwin was unquestionably a racist, arguing that civilization would advance even at the cost of inevitable racial extermination. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 24, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, A New Birth of Freedom, Adam Smith, Africans, Alexander H. Stephens, alt-right, Charles Darwin, Civil War, Confederacy, Confederate flag, Cornerstone Speech, Darwinian evolution, dreamscape, eugenics, Galileo Galilei, genocide, Harry Jaffa, Human Zoos, John West, March for Science, NASCAR, Nextdoor, Oregon, Portland, Psalms, Racism, religion, Seattle, Southerners, The Biology of the Second Reich, The Descent of Man, vacation homes, William Harvey}

Scientific Racism and the Confederate Flag

_{David Klinghoffer
July 24, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

8}

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

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Author
John G. West

Date
July 16, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Africans, baboons, ballot boxes, Benjamin Tillman, black inferiority, Caucasians, Civil War, Democratic Party, Ellenton riot, evolutionary racism, historical figures, lynching, missing links, monkeys, political rights, Racism, scientific racism, South Carolina, statues, stealing elections, U.S. Senate, United States}

Honored by Statue, Democratic South Carolina Senator Said Some Blacks “Near Akin to Monkey”

_{John G. West
July 16, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

3}

Benjamin Tillman was a monster. He publicly defended lynchings. He drew on evolutionary racism to preach black inferiority. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
July 13, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Africa, anthropologists, Ashley Montagu, Augustin Fuentes, Charles Loring Brace, Civil War, colonialism, Darwin: Portrait of a Genius, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinists, genius, genocide, James Moore, Paul Johnson, Princeton University, Racism, Science (journal), slavery, textbooks, The Descent of Man, The Natural Superiority of Women, Thomas Henry Huxley, women}

Congratulations to Science Magazine for an Honest Portrayal of Darwin’s Descent of Man

_{Michael Flannery
July 13, 2021

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution

4}

On the book’s 150th anniversary, a prestigious journal is catching up with Darwin critics. 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
Michael Flannery

Date
May 24, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Africa, anthropologists, Ashley Montagu, Augustin Fuentes, Charles Loring Brace, Civil War, colonialism, Darwin: Portrait of a Genius, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinists, genius, genocide, James Moore, Paul Johnson, Princeton University, Racism, Science (journal), slavery, textbooks, The Descent of Man, The Natural Superiority of Women, Thomas Henry Huxley, women}

Congratulations to Science Magazine for an Honest Portrayal of Darwin’s Descent of Man

_{Michael Flannery
May 24, 2021

Biology, Evolution

3}

On the book's 150th anniversary, a prestigious journal is catching up with Darwin critics. 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 ›