Science and Culture Today Discovering Design in Nature
Topic

Great Britain

Tcitpd012frederickjohndealtrylugardandwife
Photo: Frederick and Flora Lugard, by Arnold Wright, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Nigerian Experiment: Social Darwinism in Practice

In the late 19th century, Great Britain, the United States, and twelve European nations got together and divided Africa up among themselves. Read More ›
Biston_betularia
Photo credit: Syrio, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Pop Science Site Enlists the Peppered Moth to Attack Religion

If this is an “excellent” example of “Darwinian evolution in action,” it shows that Darwinian evolution doesn’t do very much.  Read More ›
Old_scow_wrecked_in_1918_just_above_Niagara_Falls
Photo credit: Diego Torres Silvestre from Sao Paulo, Brazil, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

How Darwinism Dodges the Iceberg 

When I viewed the stranded vessel in 1992 it looked remarkably well preserved, but of course functionally it was a mere “zombie” craft. Read More ›
Cynognathus
Photo credit: Ghedoghedo, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Fossil Friday: New Fossil Evidence Challenges Another Icon of Evolution

This would have been very interesting news to my friend and colleague Jonathan Wells, who had described many such cases in his ground-breaking books. Read More ›
jefferson-memorial-in-washington-dc-stockpack-adobe-stock-213227662-stockpack-adobestock
Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC
Image Credit: doganmesut - Adobe Stock

Human Rights and the Image of God

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.” Read More ›
George Orwell
Photo: George Orwell, by Cassowary Colorizations, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Recalling Orwell’s Timely Warning on Groupthink

The censorship he had to address was not a conspiracy or even a campaign; it was spontaneous. Read More ›
Darwin Comes to Africa
Image source: Discovery Institute.

John West Introduces Darwin Comes to Africa

The work explores the poisonous influence of Social Darwinism on British rule in Nigeria in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Read More ›
Olufemi Oluniyi
Photo: Olufemi Oluniyi, via Discovery Institute.

Two Nigerian Authors and Darwin’s African Legacy

Missing from Chinua Achebe’s account is the role played by scientific racism in driving British imperialist policy in the country. Read More ›
Silent Night
Photo source: Screenshot from Silent Night trailer (fair use).

A Christmas Nightmare for the COVID Era

The Christmas horror-comedy Silent Night offers a shrewd indictment of both mindless secularism and authoritarian science. Read More ›
Charles_Bradlaugh_Statue_Northampton
Photo: Statue of Charles Bradlaugh, Northampton, England, by en:User:Cj1340, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Wordsworth and the Faith of the Victorians

Even Charles Bradlaugh, the first atheist member of Parliament, was haunted by the psalmist’s reproach, “The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.” Read More ›

© Discovery Institute