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Ota Benga
Photo: African pygmy Ota Benga was displayed at the Bronx Zoo in 1906, in support of Darwinian theory, via Wikimedia Commons.

Listen: Q&A with Weikart on Darwinian Racism

What about the objection that Darwinism, properly understood, doesn’t support scientific racism (much less Nazi racism)? Read More ›
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Image credit: Arek Socha, via Pixabay.

Top Scientific Problems with Evolution: Molecular Phylogeny

Common ancestry does not emerge from the inconsistent findings of molecular phylogenetics. Read More ›
embryo of pallid sturgeon
Photo: embryo of pallid sturgeon, by USFWS Mountain-Prairie via Flickr (cropped).

“Evidence for Evolution”? Khan Academy Pushes Haeckel’s Phony Embryo Drawings

I’ve watched many Khan Academy videos over the years — sometimes just for fun, and sometimes to advise teachers on whether they are good tools to use. Read More ›
Auschwitz I - Birkenau
Photo: Entrance to Auschwitz II-Birkenau death camp, by Nelson Pérez [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Listen: How Darwinism Fueled Nazi Racism, White Nationalism

Since Darwin was a peaceable Victorian gentleman and naturalist, what connection could there be between him and Hitler and contemporary white nationalism? Read More ›
Columbine Memorial
Photo: Columbine Memorial, Littleton, Colorado, by Denverjeffrey, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Darwinian Racism: How Evolutionary Theory Shaped Nazi Thinking

It was the spring 1999, a Denver suburb. The day, April 20 — Hitler’s birthday. An 18-year-old white nationalist donned a shirt emblazoned “Natural Selection.” Read More ›
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Photo: Adolf Hitler, by Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-H1216-0500-002 / CC-BY-SA, CC BY-SA 3.0 DE <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/de/deed.en>, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Book Explores Darwinian Racism, Then and Now

To hear some tell it, Adolf Hitler was a Christian creationist who rejected Darwinian evolution. Read More ›
Haeckel's Embryos
Image: Haeckel's Embryos, via Wikimedia Commons.

So, Does Ontogeny Recapitulate Phylogeny? Nope

When I was younger, my family lived next-door to a retired dentist named Max. Before entering dentistry, Max studied biology at UC Berkeley. Read More ›
Ernst Haeckel
Photo: Ernst Haeckel, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Book: Social Darwinism Among the Biologists

The authors imply that social Darwinism was a position taken by non-scientists who just didn’t understand the science. Read More ›
animal embryo
Photo: Some believe microfossils could be animal embryos; by Sebastian Willman, via EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/248210.php?from=483256

First Animals? Fossils Won’t Fit Cambrian Evolution

Evolutionists are still fighting over the first animals. Each new fossil creates new questions, but there is one constant: bluffing that Darwinism is true. Read More ›
Piltdown Man
Image: Examining Piltdown Man, by John Cooke, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

As Science Frauds Go, Haeckel Beats Piltdown Man

Piltdown Man is a historical curiosity. Haeckel continues to resound in our minds today. Read More ›

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