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Hitler's religion
Hitler's religion
Photo: Hitler in 1941, via Wikicommons.

Complexity and Contradictions: Richard Weikart on Hitler’s Religion

There’s something deeply refreshing about scholarship that acknowledges the complexity of its subject. Read More ›
Human Zoos

Human Zoos — An Untold Story, Until Now

Director and writer John West was interviewed by the Oregon Documentary Film Festival and he tells how he learned of the subject matter himself. Read More ›
Ota Benga
Human Zoos

New Documentary, Human Zoos, Will Get Public Premiere, November 11 at Oregon Film Festival

John West explores the legacy of pseudo-scientific racism that has trailed Darwinian theory from its inception down to today, with the emergence of the alt-right. Read More ›
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David Snoke
Photo credit: Rennett Stowe, via Flickr.

Physicist David Snoke: If DNA Is Designed, Its History by Definition Must Already Be Erased

Most people are accustomed to scientific explanations being historical in nature. Read More ›
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Wilson
Photo: Statue of Charles Darwin, Natural History Museum, London, by ddouk via Pixabay.

A.N. Wilson in The Times – Against Darwinist Absolutism

Wilson's forthcoming biography appears to be part of a larger rethink of evolution that is bubbling away in a variety of areas. Read More ›
Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls
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 ›
Indiana marker
Photo credit: Gbauer8946 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

Recalling the First Eugenics Law, John West Reviews the Tragic History of a Pseudoscience

Indiana opened a door to similar legislation across the United States, culminating in the horrors of Nazi Germany. Read More ›
Michael Denton
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Darwinists Are Practiced in Shuffling Statues

What they did to Richard Owen could teach today’s vandals a thing or two. Read More ›
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Photo: Viewing an eclipse, January 24, 1925, by Harris & Ewing photo studio [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

The Impact of Solar Eclipses for History

When the sky goes dark at mid-day, people notice. Read More ›
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Metaxas
Photo: Old souk, modern Sidon, Lebanon, by MARTYR-92 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons.

Eric Metaxas on Canaanite DNA and “Fake News”

When ideologies reign, one of the first victims, invariably, is truth. The narrative is supreme, and it deforms how information is interpreted. Read More ›

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