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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
April 22, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Cambridge University Press, Charles Darwin, competition, Darwinism, E.O. Wilson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Herbert Spencer, Jeffrey O’Connell, laissez-faire, Michael Ruse, progress, Social Darwinism, The Descent of Man, Theodore Roosevelt}

Cambridge University Press’s New Book on Social Darwinism: Darwin and Herbert Spencer

_{Richard Weikart
April 22, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

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The authors admit that Darwin was a racist who promoted racial struggle. They are likely to infuriate quite a few people of varying persuasions. Read More ›

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Date
October 30, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, C.S. Lewis, Carl Sagan, compassion, COVID, Darwinists, Herbert Spencer, human nature, materialists, Michael Egnor, Nancy Pearcey, pandemic, PNAS, political correctness, Sam Harris, SARS-CoV-2, stereotypes, Steven Pinker, theism, Theodosius Dobzhansky, viruses}

Whitewashing Evolution with Borrowed Paint

_{Science & Culture
October 30, 2020

Evolution

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A team of known materialistic Darwinists promotes their helpfulness in solving the pandemic, but to do so, they steal values from outside their toolkit. Read More ›

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Date
September 4, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, Charles Darwin, evolution, evolutionists, Herbert Spencer, historiography, intelligent design, intelligent evolution, Jerry Coyne, natural theology, Overruling Intelligence, The World of Life, Thomas Henry Huxley, William A. Dembski}

A. R. Wallace Is Evolution’s Last Man Standing

_{Science & Culture
September 4, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Only Wallace’s postulation of an “Overruling Intelligence” to explain the complexities of humanity and nature has stood the test of time. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
July 7, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Science Education
Tagged
, Benedikt Hallgrimsson, Brian K. Hall, evolution, evolutionary biology, Galileo Galilei, Genetics (journal), George Bernard Shaw, George Eliot, heliocentric model, Henri Bergson, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, John Cairns, Karl Marx, Max Delbrück, Nicolaus Copernicus, Peter Bowler, Ptolemaic system, randomness, religion, Sigmund Freud, Strickberger’s Evolution, textbooks, Thomas Hardy, Thomas Kuhn}

The Triumphalism of Strickberger’s Evolution

_{Robert Shedinger
July 7, 2020

Evolution, Science Education

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The oversimplification here is staggering (Darwin and women’s rights?!) and would take an entire book to unpack. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
January 19, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, __edited, animals, anti-science, athens, C.S. Lewis, civil rights, Dallas, Darwinian evolution, eugenics, Herbert Spencer, Hiroshima, humans, intelligent design, James Jeans, Martin Luther King Jr., Nagasaki, scientific materialism, scientific racism, scientism, sermons, Strength to Love, Texas}

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

_{John G. West
January 19, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

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Dr. King accepted the animal ancestry of humans as taught by Darwinian evolution, but he spoke forcefully against the idea that we are the products of a blind material process. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
January 18, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, Arthur Balfour, C.S. Lewis, Dallas, Darwinian theory, discrimination, gravitation, Herbert Spencer, Hiroshima, Human Zoos, intelligent design, James Jeans, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Day, materialism, Nagasaki, progress, Racism, science, scientific racism, scientism, Strength to Love}

Martin Luther King’s Powerful Critique of Scientific Racism, Scientific Materialism

_{John G. West
January 18, 2019

Bioethics, Evolution, Technology

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Dr. King was sharply critical of the misuse of science to promote racial discrimination, and he spoke forcefully against the idea that humans are the products of a blind material process. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
December 20, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, A. N. Wilson, Adrian Desmond, Alfred Russel Wallace, Benjamin Wiker, Charles Darwin, Charles Darwin: Victorian Mythmaker, Edinburgh, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Herbert Spencer, history, James Moore, Linnean Society, Loren Eiseley, Plinian Society}

A.N. Wilson’s Charles Darwin — A Sense of Déjà Vu

_{Michael Flannery
December 20, 2017

Evolution

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Factual errors aside, the problem is I’ve heard all this before. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
May 11, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, BIO-Complexity, Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, intelligent design, Joseph Hooker, nature, peer review, Thomas Henry Huxley, X Club}

Integrity in Science — A Facebook Dialogue

_{Ann Gauger
May 11, 2017

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Science

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BIO-Complexity is not the first journal to be founded to advance a controversial case. Read More ›