Tag: kin selection

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 20, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Tagged
, altruism, burning cars, Casey Luskin, culture, education, evolutionary mechanism, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary utility, genes, group selection, heroism, human behavior, kin selection, kindness, Marvel universe, podcast, reciprocal altruism, Richard Dawkins, selfish genes, strangers, teamwork}

Can Evolution Explain Altruism or Heroism?

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 20, 2025

Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology

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Casey Luskin and I share separate recent examples of people who have run towards burning cars to save complete strangers. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 9, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, bacteria, Camp Mystic, campers, counsellors, Darwinism, David Bentley Hart, evil, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, good, Gottfried Leibnitz, group selection, innocent suffering, Ivan Karamazov, kin selection, Lisbon earthquake, mourning, natural selection, PZ Myers, reciprocal altruism, summer camp, The Doors of the Sea, theodicy, Voltaire}

The Challenge to Darwinism from Camp Mystic

_{Michael Egnor
July 9, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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One of the most tragic events I can remember happened this July 4th — a flash flood killed nearly 200 people, 27 of whom were children and staff at Camp Mystic. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
November 30, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Andreas Wagner, Apostle John, Aristotle, charity, Christianity, de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, Edward Feser, Empedocles, evolution, Finding Darwin's God, G.K. Chesterton, gnosticism, Howard Glicksman, human dignity, intellectual captivity, intelligent design, John West, Kenneth Miller, kin selection, sexuality, Simon Conway Morris, Steve Laufmann, teleology, theology, Thomas Aquinas, University of Notre Dame, Your Designed Body}

Attempts to Reconcile Evolutionary Theory with Christianity Lead to Intractable Tensions

_{Brian Miller
November 30, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Faith & Science

9}

The fundamental premise of evolutionary theory is that humans are the product of an undirected process that did not have us in mind. Read More ›

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Date
January 16, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, altruism, Andrew McDiarmid, Darwinism, DNA, Evolution News, evolutionists, genes, group selection, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, kin selection, love, offspring, self-sacrifice, survival machines}

To Say the Least, Altruism Is Not an Easy Fit with Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
January 16, 2021

Bioethics, Evolution

2}

Evolutionists have made some progress (they think) explaining such things with theories of group selection or kin selection. Read More ›

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Date
January 11, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, Alice in Wonderland, alleles, altruism, antelopes, ants, behavior, behaviorism, bioRxiv, bonobos, cooperation, Darwinian theory, evolution, game theory, genetic determinism, kin selection, lions, love, pandemic, slime molds}

How to Destroy Love with Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
January 11, 2021

Biology, Evolution

9}

When Darwin proposed a new view of biology based on chance, he cheapened everything, including our most precious human values. Read More ›

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Date
September 1, 2020

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, Alfred Russel Wallace, animals, Charles Darwin, faith, humanity, intelligent evolution, kin selection, Michelangelo’s David, natural selection, Pirahã people, speech, The Descent of Man, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe, Turkey}

Only Wallace’s “Intelligent Evolution” Can Explain the Kingdoms of Speech and Faith

_{Science and Culture
September 1, 2020

Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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In 2016 the late great journalist, novelist, and social commentator Tom Wolfe exposed Darwin’s unsolved riddle, or one of them anyway. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
January 2, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, altruism, beauty, bees, California, crucifix, E.O. Wilson, Garden of Eden, goodness, group selection, J.P. Moreland, kin selection, logic, materialism, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, natural selection, neo-Darwinian processes, Neo-Darwinism, Paris, population genetics, prejudice, transcendentals, truth}

The Transcendental Treasury of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness

_{Ann Gauger
January 2, 2019

Intelligent Design

10}

Truth, beauty, and goodness are abstract concepts that correspond to our deepest desires. They are not likely to have evolved by a neo-Darwinian process. Read More ›

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Author
Cornelius Hunter

Date
September 13, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Evolutionary Psychology
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, __k-review, abortion, babies, behavior, evolution, falsification, fitness, just-so stories, kin selection}

The Challenge to Evolution from Abortion

_{Cornelius Hunter
September 13, 2017

Bioethics, Evolution, Evolutionary Psychology, Reproductive Science

4}

The whole point of “fitness,” in an evolutionary context, is reproduction. One has higher “fitness” if one can have more offspring. Read More ›

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post

Date
May 30, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, Dartmouth College, Darwinian evolution, E.O. Wilson, kin selection, Martin Nowak, natural selection, nature, PNAS, Tom Bethell}

No Controversies About Darwinism? Try This One

_{Science and Culture
May 30, 2017

Evolution, Life Sciences

10}

A fierce battle over a core principle of Darwinian theory has raged for decades, but you wouldn’t know it. Read More ›

A hummingbird in a Vervain patch with open wings and flared tail

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
January 16, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __nedited, alien intelligence, Brian Miller, experimental science, fine-tuning, kin selection, natural selection, proteins, purpose, simulation theory}

Robert Wright Asks: Can Evolution Have a Higher Purpose?

_{Brian Miller
January 16, 2017

Evolution, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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He describes an interview with evolutionist William Hamilton, who developed the theory of kin selection. Read More ›