Lombroso 1 Type post Author John G. West Date June 24, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsBiologyEvolution Tagged , brain, Cesare Lombroso, Charles Darwin, crime, criminal justice, criminals, Darwin Day in America, evolution, heredity, human rights, Italy, museums, phrenology, prisoners, skeleton, skulls, Social Darwinism, Turin In the Footsteps of Social Darwinist Cesare Lombroso John G. West June 24, 2022 Bioethics, Biology, Evolution 4 Lombroso’s ideas were quack science. But they were taken seriously by criminologists and public officials around the world until they were debunked. Read More ›
Marcelo Gleiser Type post Author Michael Egnor Date January 19, 2022 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindPhilosophyPhysical SciencesPhysics Tagged , Big Think, brain states, criminal justice, free will, Hannah Arendt, Marcelo Gleiser, materialism, neuroscience, propositions, quantum physics, Sam Harris, totalitarianism, truth Does Science Disprove Free Will? A Physicist Says No Michael Egnor January 19, 2022 Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics 3 Marcelo Gleiser notes that the mind is not a solar system with strict deterministic laws. Read More ›
chimps Type post Author John G. West Date January 11, 2022 CategoriesBioethicsEthicsEvolutionHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , Charles Darwin, criminal justice, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, environmentalism, George Gaylord Simpson, John Derbyshire, medicine, National Review, natural selection, Nobel laureates, Peter Singer, Princeton University, random mutations, religion, Wayne State University How Has Darwinism Negatively Impacted Society? John G. West January 11, 2022 Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism 6 The late Morris Goodman of Wayne State University argued that humans are “only slightly remodeled chimpanzee-like apes.” Read More ›
straw man 3 Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date May 23, 2018 CategoriesFaith & ScienceIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, Catholicism and Evolution, criminal justice, Darwin's Black Box, death, decay, Douglas Axe, eyeglasses, Father Michael Chaberek, flat earth, Forensics, human eye, intelligent design, John Jay College, John Paul II, Jonathan Wells, junk DNA, maxillary sinus, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, Nathan Lents, neurosurgeon, physiology, Pope Francis, Stephen Meyer, suffering, testicles, Wall Street Journal, William A. Dembski Straw Man: Nathan Lents Versus the Theory of Perfect Design David Klinghoffer May 23, 2018 Faith & Science, Intelligent Design 6 True, things go wrong with our bodies, with results that range from the tragic to the merely expensive or inconvenient. Read More ›
