Tag: Darwin’s Sacred Cause

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 12, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, A Voice in the Wilderness, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, African Americans, Africans, anti-racism, biologists, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Donald Trump, Eric Wallace, Eugenie Scott, evolution, Freedom’s Journal Institute, Human Zoos, intelligent design, James Moore, John West, Joseph L. Graves Jr., Joseph Stalin, Olufemi Oluniyi, racial hierarchy, Racism, racists, Robert Shedinger, Royal Society, sexism, The Descent of Man}

Yet Another Scholar Seeks to Airbrush Darwin’s Racist Legacy

_{David Klinghoffer
May 12, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Racists for decades, down to today, have looked to Charles Darwin as a champion of their ideas, and if they’re right about anything, it’s that. Read More ›

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Date
March 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, Charles Darwin, correspondence, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinian racism, evolution, history, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Moore, podcast, Racism, Richard Weikart, Robert Shedinger, slavery, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms}

Robert Shedinger: Darwin’s Sacred Cause Is “Historical Fiction”

_{Science and Culture
March 29, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution, Science

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The effect of the book is to misrepresent Darwin in such a way as to make those who reject Darwinism appear to be opposing a saintly anti-abolitionist. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Evolution
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, American Revolution, American South, anti-racism, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinian evolution, Harriet Martineau, historiography, James Moore, Journal of Researches, racists, Sacred Cause (series), scholarship, science fiction, slavery, University of Chicago Press}

A Failed Attempt to Turn Darwin into Wilberforce

_{Robert Shedinger
March 22, 2023

Bioethics, Culture, Evolution

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Nice try, Desmond and Moore. But criticizing Darwinian evolution does not make one a racist. The real Darwin is a far more ambiguous and conflicted figure. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 20, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, Cambridge, Charles Darwin, citations, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Down House, England, evolution, historiography, Jamaica, James Moore, John Stuart Mill, Louis Agassiz, Racism, Sacred Cause (series), slavery, The Times (London), William Erasmus Darwin}

Darwin and the “Eyre Affair”: A Speculative Tale

_{Robert Shedinger
March 20, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

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October 7, 1865, saw a revolt break out in Jamaica in which 18 officials and militia men were killed by members of the freed black population. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 18, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, correspondence, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, history, James Moore, Joseph Dalton Hooker, primary sources, Racism, Sacred Cause (series), slavery, United States}

Darwin and Agassiz: An Imaginary Picture

_{Robert Shedinger
March 18, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Given the close relationship Louis Agassiz shared with pro-slavery factions in the South, Desmond and Moore focus much on Darwin’s relationship with Agassiz. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 17, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Cambridge University, Charles Darwin, correspondence, cruelty, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, dehumanization, evolution, fact check, history, HMS Beagle, James Moore, newspapers, primary sources, Racism, Robert Fitzroy, Sacred Cause (series), slavery, slaves}

Fact Check: Imagining Darwin’s Abolitionism

_{Robert Shedinger
March 17, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

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Desmond and Moore tell us that Darwin assured his sisters that his principles on slavery hadn’t changed despite spending five years living with Captain FitzRoy. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 16, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, abolitionists, Adrian Desmond, common descent, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, evolution, historiography, history, HMS Beagle, human origins, James Moore, new york, Ohio, Pennsylvania, race, Racism, Sacred Cause (series), slavery, Tierra del Fuego, William Darwin Fox}

“Sacred Cause”? Reconsidering Charles Darwin as Abolitionist

_{Robert Shedinger
March 16, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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I offer a series of posts here designed to lay out the evidence in detail. It is not merely that Desmond and Moore are selective in the sources they cite. 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
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
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 12, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Abraham Lincoln, Adrian Desmond, Africa, Allison Hopper, anti-racism, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Edinburgh, Emma Darwin, Erasmus Darwin, Harriet Martineau, human origins, James Moore, Racism, slavery, slaves, The Descent of Man, Victorian England}

The Casual Racism of Charles Darwin

_{Robert Shedinger
July 12, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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It is certainly startling to see the N-word cropping up in Darwin’s letters, but this is not the only place. Read More ›