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Theodore T. Munger
Theodore T. Munger
Theodore T. Munger, in 1913, by Benjamin Wisner Bacon / Public domain.

Theistic Evolution: The Case of Theodore Munger

In an extensive essay, Munger’s purpose was to show that evolution not only poses no threat to Christian faith but can confirm it Read More ›
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Photo: Statue of Benjamin Tillman, Columbia, South Carolina, by Billy Hathorn / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

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

Benjamin Tillman was a monster. He publicly defended lynchings. He drew on evolutionary racism to preach black inferiority. Read More ›
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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 ›
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Racism, Evolution, and Human Exceptionalism

Certain threads in the events of recent months suggest the hand of a skilled novelist. Read More ›
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Photo: Richard Owen (left); beside him is the skeleton of a giant moa, by John van Voorst [Public domain].

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

Darwin was unquestionably a racist, arguing that civilization would advance even at the cost of inevitable racial extermination. Read More ›
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Photo credit: Stephen Meyer interviewing Michael Medved, by Nathan Jacobson.

Great Minds: Stephen Meyer and Michael Medved See Design in the Lives of Washington, Lincoln

What’s behind the impression of intelligent direction? Just a trick of perspective, like seeing shapes in clouds? Read More ›
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Richards: Using Artificial Intelligence to Sell the Welfare State

There’s an undoubted sense of crisis in the air. Read More ›

Why the Animal/Nature Rights vs. Human Duties Distinction Matters

Says Jonah Goldberg, “One cheer (and maybe two) for non-human personhood.” Read More ›
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Rights Are Not about “Feelings”

Thomas Hills argues that we will accord human-style rights to robots because we will come to empathize with them. Read More ›

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