Tag: James Moore

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
May 12, 2026

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Asa Gray, bacteria, Charles Darwin, Charles Kingsley, cosmogonism, Crotchet Castle, crotchets, David Stove, Europe, evolution, evolutionary psychology, False Messiah, fish, Francis Darwin, G. B. Müller, Heilsgeschichte, HMS Beagle, humans, James Moore, Jenny (orangutan), Lamarckian theory, Melanie Phillips, monkeys, nescience, Origin of Species, panspermia, Parousia, progress, Question Time, Richard Dawkins, S. A. Newman, sociobiology, The Kingdom of Speech, Thomas Love Peacock, Thomas Malthus, Tom Wolfe, Victorians}

Paradigm Lost: Darwinism and the Idea of Human Progress

_{Neil Thomas
May 12, 2026

Evolution, History of Science, Scientific Reasoning

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The notion of progress is now of course increasingly questioned, especially after what has come to be known as “the calamitous 20th century.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 16, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Against the Professors, Albert Einstein, ancient Greece, aphasia, arithmeticians, Arthur Eddington, Arthur Koestler, astrologers, ataraxia, Carlo Rovelli, Charles Darwin, Charles Sanders Peirce, Chrysippus, Das Wesen des Christentums, David Hume, epistemology, Erasmus Darwin, False Messiah, Friedrich Nietzsche, geometers, grammarians, J. B. Bury, J. B. S. Haldane, James Moore, Jerry Coyne, John Dewey, Ludwig Feuerbach, Marcus du Sautoy, Max Planck, musicians, natural preservation, natural selection, Neal Gillespie, New Atheists, Newtonian mechanics, Niels Bohr, Origin of Species, philosophy, Pierre Bayle, Pons Malleus, Pyrrho, revisions, rhetors, Sanford G. Etheridge, Sextus Empiricus, Sir Charles Lyell, Steve Taylor, The Descent of Man, Werner Heisenberg, Why Evolution Is True, William James, William Shakespeare}

Darwin’s Doubts, and Their Philosophical Implications

_{Neil Thomas
March 16, 2026

Evolution, Philosophy, Scientific Reasoning

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Charles Darwin thus appears to us more modern than his present-day disciples, whose unbending materialism comes closer to that of Erasmus Darwin. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 12, 2025

Categories
Evolution
History of Science
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Bluff, Darwinian racism, Darwinian theory, history of science, ID the Future, indigenous peoples, intelligent design, James Moore, Michael Keas, podcast, Racism, Richard Weikart, Robert Shedinger, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms, truth}

Darwin’s Sacred Fiction

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 12, 2025

Evolution, History of Science, Human Origins and Anthropology

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A book by Adrian Desmond and James Moore holds that Charles Darwin was significantly motivated in his scientific work by abolitionist sentiments. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
July 3, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Tagged
, Asa Gray, Bible, California, Charles Darwin, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Genesis, Hamlet, Hebrew Bible, Higher Criticism, James Moore, Journal of Researches, miracles, Mircea Eliade, On the Origin of Species, poetry, Pyrrho, Robert Fitzroy, secularism, St. Paul, William Paley}

With “Fluctuating” Convictions, Darwin Faced a Threefold Challenge

_{Neil Thomas
July 3, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science

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In what follows I pose the question of how Darwin fell subject to such wide “fluctuations” in his beliefs and how he came to resolve those tensions. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 12, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, African Americans, Africans, anti-racism, biologists, Charles Darwin, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Donald Trump, Eugenie Scott, evolution, Human Zoos, intelligent design, James Moore, John West, Joseph Stalin, Olufemi Oluniyi, racial hierarchy, Racism, racists, Robert Shedinger, Royal Society, sexism, The Descent of Man}

Yet Another Scholar Seeks to Airbrush Darwin’s Racist Legacy

_{David Klinghoffer
May 12, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Racists for decades, down to today, have looked to Charles Darwin as a champion of their ideas, and if they’re right about anything, it’s that. Read More ›

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Date
March 29, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Science
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, Charles Darwin, correspondence, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinian racism, evolution, history, ID the Future, intelligent design, James Moore, podcast, Racism, Richard Weikart, Robert Shedinger, slavery, The Mystery of Evolutionary Mechanisms}

Robert Shedinger: Darwin’s Sacred Cause Is “Historical Fiction”

_{Science & Culture
March 29, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution, Science

2}

The effect of the book is to misrepresent Darwin in such a way as to make those who reject Darwinism appear to be opposing a saintly anti-abolitionist. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 22, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Culture
Evolution
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, American Revolution, American South, anti-racism, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Darwinian evolution, Harriet Martineau, historiography, James Moore, Journal of Researches, racists, Sacred Cause (series), scholarship, science fiction, slavery, University of Chicago Press}

A Failed Attempt to Turn Darwin into Wilberforce

_{Robert Shedinger
March 22, 2023

Bioethics, Culture, Evolution

7}

Nice try, Desmond and Moore. But criticizing Darwinian evolution does not make one a racist. The real Darwin is a far more ambiguous and conflicted figure. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 20, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, abolitionist movement, Adrian Desmond, Cambridge, Charles Darwin, citations, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, Down House, England, evolution, historiography, James Moore, John Stuart Mill, Louis Agassiz, Racism, Sacred Cause (series), slavery}

Darwin and the “Eyre Affair”: A Speculative Tale

_{Robert Shedinger
March 20, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

8}

October 7, 1865, saw a revolt break out in Jamaica in which 18 officials and militia men were killed by members of the freed black population. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 18, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, correspondence, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, history, James Moore, Racism, Sacred Cause (series), slavery, United States}

Darwin and Agassiz: An Imaginary Picture

_{Robert Shedinger
March 18, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

Given the close relationship Louis Agassiz shared with pro-slavery factions in the South, Desmond and Moore focus much on Darwin’s relationship with Agassiz. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
March 17, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Adrian Desmond, Cambridge University, Charles Darwin, correspondence, cruelty, Darwin’s Sacred Cause, dehumanization, evolution, fact check, history, HMS Beagle, James Moore, newspapers, Racism, Robert Fitzroy, Sacred Cause (series), slavery, slaves}

Fact Check: Imagining Darwin’s Abolitionism

_{Robert Shedinger
March 17, 2023

Bioethics, Evolution

6}

Desmond and Moore tell us that Darwin assured his sisters that his principles on slavery hadn’t changed despite spending five years living with Captain FitzRoy. Read More ›