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Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace
Photo: Statue of Alfred Russel Wallace, by George Beccaloni / CC BY-SA (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0).

Social Darwinism: The Wallace Factor

Ideas do indeed have consequences, but not all ideas play out the same way or weave their way in the history of ideas toward the same destination. Read More ›
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Photo: Visitors admire the iconic Darwin statue at London's Natural History Museum, by Thomas Fabian, via Flickr.

Charles Darwin in Light of Black History Month

Was Darwin’s racism purely a function of his time and place, Victorian England? Historian Michael Flannery says no. Read More ›
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Photo: Visitors admire the iconic Darwin statue at London's Natural History Museum, by Thomas Fabian, via Flickr.

Richard Weikart on How Darwinism Fueled Scientific Racism

Darwin didn’t merely predict racial genocide; he thought it would advance human evolution. Read More ›
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C. S. Lewis, Science, and Science Fiction

Was C. S. Lewis an enemy of science? The apparent answer to this question is no. Read More ›
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The Abolition of Man and the Advent of the Posthuman

In Julian Savulescu’s view, rapidly advancing brain science will provide some of the data necessary to shaping a better human race. Read More ›
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Himmelfarb and Her Haters

What can be said of Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution in the dusk of 2009, fifty year after its original publication? Is it a terrible book? Read More ›
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Photo: Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls (center) with William Penney and John Cockcroft, by Los Alamos National Laboratory [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Freedom and Scientific Progress – A Necessary Relationship

A familiar talking point holds that a rigid attitude to science along Darwinist lines is indispensable to technological advance, while academic freedom impedes it. Read More ›

A. L. Hughes’s New Non-Darwinian Mechanism of Adaption Was Discovered and Published in Detail by an ID Geneticist 25 Years Ago

As a geneticist, I have been "preaching" exactly this non-Darwinian kind of evolution and speciation since 1986. Read More ›

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